Finding The One

What are the odds of finding a perfect mate?

As of today there are approximately 6.6 billion people on the planet.
About 50% are the correct gender for you. (slightly more women, but we’ll ignore that for this) That leaves 3.3 billion.
Since most people will only consider someone within a certain 10 year age range that will knock off another 90%. (I would show the math on this but it’s long so just trust me.)
That leaves 330 million people.
Only 15% of these people will you consider attractive enough to even be dateable.
So now we are down to 49.5 million people.
Of that 49.5 million you will only cross paths with 0.01% in your lifetime, so now we are down to 4950 people.
At the time you do cross paths with those 4950 people, only ¼ will be available to date at that time. Giving us 1238 people.
You will only be available to date them ¼ of the time .. down to 310.
At that moment you meet them ½ will have some instant flaw that will turn you off (ie .. they smoke & you don’t, they are the wrong religion, too short, too tall, etc etc). So now you’re stuck with 155 people.
Of those 155, 75% of these people will need to be eliminated because of some flaw you found out at a later time; these are some the people you have actually dated. (They shoot heroin you prefer crack, they just love cats you have an allergy, they’re actually a second cousin & you’re not from West Virginia, they can’t speak proper English, not educated enough, etc etc etc.)
That leaves us 38 people.
Since nobody likes being rejected about 80% of the time one or both of you will blow the chance because you didn’t let the other person know you were even interested. We’ll round this one up to 8 people.
You already dated 7 of them & you blew it.
Good luck finding the other one.


I'm really depressed now. I knew I hated math for some reason.