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Man Runs Sad Math On Chances Of Finding Soulmate

Man, when anyone posts a wholesome meme they put themselves in the situation where other, potentially more mean spirited folks online will do as they do to make everyone else feel just a bit worse about themselves. Thus could be the case for this situation where a dude runs the sad numbers on the chances of anyone finding a soulmate. He says he has a better chance at winning the Mega Millions. Ouch. 

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    Text - feyxx @fezzz if 99% people find you unattractive then around 75,000,000 people on earth still find you attractive Zakya @zakya 112 My self confidence just shot up
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    Text - there's still hope for you Like Reply 1d Well, let's see... Half are women, so we are at 37,500,500. If we assume age is uniformly distributed and I could date someone 5 years older or younger, based on the world age expectancy of 72.7, there would only be 5,158,184 in my "dating age range". A Gallup poll shows that 36% of people in this range are married or in a relationship, so we are left with 3,301,238. A paper by the Williams Institute states that 3.5% of people are LGTBQ, so that le
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    Text - Ok, now (borrowing from Munroe's What if? book) suppose you lock eyes with an average of 12 new strangers a day. According to my country's life expectancy, I only have 20,856 days left (shit). That means locking eyes with 250,272 new people in my remaining lifetime. Again, considering only those within my age range: 34,387. Let's put all of them in set B. Now let's make the big assumptions. Let's say the probability of locking eyes with a stranger is independent of them being in set A (th
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    Text - Assuming locking eyes with any person is equally likely,. the probability of locking eyes with a particular stranger, and that stranger being part of set A is: (0.0000852)*(0.000004598) = 3.92e-10 %3D I literally have a higher chance of winning mega millions. Like · Reply 1d Ireplies like this are why 99% find you unattractive ike: Reply . 23h
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