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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Asian Fetish on Craigslist Craigslist personals are a great source of amusement, but this guy takes the cake: either he's 1. unable to form coherent sentences in what I presume is his native tongue, English, or 2. he's writing deliberately in broken English in order to be more "understandable" to the Asian women he seeks. In either case, it's scary. This is one of the best (read: worst) personal ads I've ever seen. Wisest, happiest is firstest Asian woman 18-26 Labels: Craigslist, relationships ^ Top | 1:17 PM | | | 
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Why I Will Never Have a Boyfriend This post was inspired by an essay I first found years ago, Why I Will Never Have a Girlfriend, which was written to explain why its author would (unfortunately) remain single despite having extremely reasonable criteria for a match. Following his approach, "I shall endeavour to make this proof as rigorous as the available data permits. And I should note, too, that there will be no statistical trickery involved here; I have cited all my sources and provided all relevant calculations in case anyone wishes to conduct their own independent review." On to the numbers. World population (estimated for July 2006): 6,525,170,264* Since these numbers are only a few months behind, we'll assume no additional adjustments are necessary. Number of men in the world: 3,286,482,000** I'm not bisexual, nor am I a lesbian, so we'll have to discount half the world's population immediately. And in developed nations, in my age range: 172,784,000 I have nothing against undeveloped nations, but given that I'm not likely to spend much time outside of the West and industrialized Asia, we'll have to restrict our numbers to the developed world. As defined by the UN Population Database, the More Developed Regions comprise "all regions of Europe plus Northern America, Australia/New Zealand and Japan": 589,179,000** Let's say I'm only interested in men who are around my age (I'm 25), though we'll be generous: Age 20-24: 42,612,000 Age 25-29: 42,324,000 Age 30-34: 43,500,000 Age 35-39: 43,727,000** Total: 172,163,000 Since I was born in Singapore and it is a developed nation, though not included in the regions list above, we'll add Singaporean men to our numbers as well: 2,204,000** Age 20-24: 137,000 Age 25-29: 135,000 Age 30-34: 160,000 Age 35-39: 189,000** Total: 621,000 And are attractive: 11,518,933 Let's assume that I find 1 in 15 men attractive (in both a physical and non-physical sense) enough to consider dating. And are intelligent: 575,946 Assuming that the average IQ is 100, in the US 5% of the population scores over 125***. We'll say that this score is sufficent and that distribution remains roughly the same for the developed world. And are Christian: 184,302 So I've been raised with the funny idea that I should marry someone who is also a Christian. Worldwide, 32% of the population consider themselves Christian^. And are single: 29,488 I generally identify with Evangelical Christians (I won't go into my rants about that particular sector for now), and 74% of them are married^^. Since it seems like an inordinately high proportion of us get married straight out of college, that number probably isn't terribly far off even in my given age range. We'll also assume that another 10% are in relationships (that's probably a low number). And find me dateable: 11,795 He needs to find me attractive as well. I like to think I'm an interesting person, so we'll be generous and say that 40% of our men would be willing to date me. For now we won't worry about any other personal characteristics, like shared interests. By these criteria, 1 in 278,633 men in world has marriage potential. I'd have to meet 14,648 men in my age range before finding one that is truly dateable. If I met a new, age-appropriate man every day, it would take me 40 years to find a match. Considering my current age, I'd be 65 at that point. And since the average lifespan of a man worldwide is 63 years*, he may well be dead by then. References: * CIA World Factbook ** United Nations Population Division, Population Database *** Wikipedia: Intelligence quotient ^ Religioustolerance.org ^^ Wikipedia: Demographics of the United States Labels: humor, relationships ^ Top | 8:20 AM | | |
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