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Man Uses Math to Explain Girlfriend Woes
Fox News Charlotte ^ | 12 January 2010 | FRANK CARNEVALE

Posted on 01/13/2010 8:06:35 PM PST by Fractal Trader

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Compares finding a mate to searching for ET. I wonder if it works for finding illegal aliens.
1 posted on 01/13/2010 8:06:35 PM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama
0.0000034?

Way high.

2 posted on 01/13/2010 8:09:20 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Fractal Trader

He’s also gay, which makes the odds even worse.


3 posted on 01/13/2010 8:10:58 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Fractal Trader

There’s an XKCD toon just waiting to be written here...


4 posted on 01/13/2010 8:12:07 PM PST by El Sordo
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To: 1rudeboy

Lower your standards....increase your odds.


5 posted on 01/13/2010 8:14:34 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: Fractal Trader
A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend.

Classic scene from Survivor. Contestent Yul Kwon (while standing on a narrow wooden ledge on a pole 15' above the ground) explaining how the cube-square law disadvantages larger players and concluding "and that's why elephants can't run up tree-trunks < beat> I'm never, ever going to get a date again, am I?"

6 posted on 01/13/2010 8:15:05 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Don't panic, the lunatics are in charge and have everything in hand.)
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To: Fractal Trader

It seems kind of silly to try to predict the possibility of an event occurring about which we have no real knowledge. I have no idea how any equation can possibly predict the probability of finding extraterrestrial life.

Therefore, the equation is also unlikely to predict the guy’s chances of finding a girlfriend.

However, there is a way to determine his chances, and it hardly requires math at all. Just show his pics to some females and observe their reactions. If he’s a long, greasy haired nerd with a bad complexion and unfashionable ill-fitting clothes, his chances are quite slim.


7 posted on 01/13/2010 8:15:40 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: 1rudeboy
0.0000034? Way high.

By at least a factor of 1000. Maybe 1000000?

8 posted on 01/13/2010 8:16:07 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Fractal Trader

It ain’t the math buddy; try using a mirror.....


10 posted on 01/13/2010 8:18:09 PM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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I've narrowed my criteria to the essentials.

Big boobies.

11 posted on 01/13/2010 8:20:35 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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12 posted on 01/13/2010 8:20:57 PM PST by RockinRight (The sleeping giant has been awoken, and he's PISSED.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Dear Peter,

I’m the woman at the bar reading a book on astrophysics and drinking an Irish Coffee.

If I may suggest: stop looking for the ideal woman. Why? Because she is looking for the ideal man. Do you get it now? They don’t exist.

Instead make friends with women you meet. After all, if you do marry one of them you’ll have someone fairly agreable with which to live.

If all your relationship is based upon is her attractiveness and your libido, well here’s a hint - neither will last. The world is filled with beautiful divorced women whose ex-husbands think they’re both stupid and difficult.

Better to marry a woman who, if she were a man, would be your best friend. Looks and libido soon fade; friendships tend to endure.


13 posted on 01/13/2010 8:21:25 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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Brings to mind the words of a professor of mine in grad school talking about not finding an exact solution to an equation - something like ‘As with marriage, you sometimes have to find a reasonable approximation and go with it.”


14 posted on 01/13/2010 8:31:58 PM PST by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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“He’s also gay, which makes the odds even worse.”

Then, he’s looking in the wrong city & zip codes.


15 posted on 01/13/2010 8:32:29 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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” If he’s a long, greasy haired nerd with a bad complexion and unfashionable ill-fitting clothes, his chances are quite slim.”

Well, I am a long-haired nerd with the worst complexion you ever saw - in fact, I am hopped up on prednizone and cipro right now, trying to improve things. Hey look, a chicken! Wait, let’s go paint the house!

And my clothes are dismal - you would not believe it. My underwear is older than my kids. So is my shirt. And I rarely wear shoes.

It seems somebody fell for the schtick.


16 posted on 01/13/2010 8:33:53 PM PST by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: lightman

Go Ugly Early

was the moto of some of my squadron mates.


17 posted on 01/13/2010 8:35:46 PM PST by lack-of-trust
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I did this same equation 25 years ago after looking at what?
Carl Sagans equations of alien life. Very easy, degreed in Math


18 posted on 01/13/2010 8:37:52 PM PST by Sporaticus
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Better to marry a woman who, if she were a man, would be your best friend.

I'm not sure that approach will work for him either, since in my experience most young scientists want to talk about their incomprehensible work aaaaalll the time, and their best friends tend also to be scientists working in the same field so they can understand each other.

He's an attractive lad, but his problems are not unique or surprising. The more educated and intelligent one is, the fewer potential mates will be available. This young man is probably in the top one-tenth of one percent of the population in terms of intelligence, so there aren't going to be many people, male or female, who can keep up with him intellectually. If he's like almost every other hard-science PhD candidate, he probably obsesses about his research 24-7-365 and might not be able to talk about anything else at this point in his life, which will make him a dead bore as well as generally inexperienced compared to other young men of his age.

But eventually most of these guys end up getting married to somebody who supports and tolerates their work.

19 posted on 01/13/2010 8:39:25 PM PST by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: Kirkwood

He isn’t gay, those Brits just sound like poofters.


20 posted on 01/13/2010 8:45:16 PM PST by donmeaker (Invicto)
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