• somePotato@sh.itjust.works
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    That’s assuming you’ll meet literally every person on earth

    Let’s say you will have a meaningful interaction with 1000 people ever, 1% of that leaves you with 10

    If you’re not bi make it 5 before you even start considering wether you also find those people attractive back, if they’re single and in the right age range

    So get that confidence back down. Statistics are a bitch

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      Yeah, its also not a binary “attractive/unattractive”. Out of those 10 people, they would be some who will find you neither attractive or unattractive, just kinda meh. And THEN add some who might find you attractive, but are either in a relationship themselves or like double or more your age.

      I want that confidence back! Give it here, buddy, we dont deserve it!

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      1000 people ever

      for your whole life that seems like a low estimate, but yes it’s gonna take a long time to find that 1%

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    I live in a city of about 500,000

    Of course, I’m not dating anyone outside my acceptable range, which is about 20 years wide. Assuming an even distribution of people across all ages 1 to 100, this narrows it to 20%, or 100,000 people

    Of course I’m more interested in ladies than fellas, so I’m gonna cut it to 51% based on gender, so 51,000 potential matches

    We’re pretty evenly split politically, and imma be real I ain’t dating someone who’s gonna vote desantis, so let’s cut that in half again to 25,500

    About 7% of people share my dietary preferences, and it’s a strong enough moral conviction that it’s a dealbreaker. That number is higher in people who share my political leanings, though, so let’s consider it 14%, or 3570.

    Now I just have to figure out the odds that the <1% of people that I would be interested in would be interested in me. If it is just 1%, then there are around 36 dudes, ladies, and nonbinary maties in this city that I could conceivably go out with

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      To add some more realism to these numbers:

      • Age is not evenly distributed at all.
      • A variety of your other factors likely have significant overlap with each other.
      • 1% mutual interest after already matching on many crucial factors is also exceptionally pessimistic estimating.
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      IMO people with valid convictions are usually much more attractive than they give themselves credit.

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    44 million live in Asia, 14m in Africa, 7m in Europe, 6m in North America, 4m in South America, 400k in Australia/Oceania

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    That means 2.6 people find you attractive in every single square mile of land on Earth. Let’s make that 1 to account for children and elderly.