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Originally Posted by Yakk
(1) how smart? Remember, the smarter she is, the smarter she will probably want you to be. Say top 20%?
(2) how funny? Top 20% humor wise?
(3) how cute/skinny? Bottom 20% of the population your age? You do realize that this will somewhat anti-correlate with (1)?
(4) you do realize that this will somewhat anti-correlate with (3), right?
(5) requires that you be at least as good, and that she has similar criteria. Most women are in a relationship already and won't find you worth the effort to see if they want to 'trade up' (or down) for you. Let's say 20% will like you!
Let's assume that each of 1 through 5 is a 20% chance, and the correlations and the anti-correlations cancel out.
The girl that passes those tests is a one in 3125 girl.
At 1 date with a new girl per week, that's 60 years to find your girl.
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Yakk, I think your numbers there are a little off, you assume that he's going to actually date girls that don't meet his criteria. While for some criteria it will be true, in some instances he won't need too. For example, any physical criteria (3) can be evaluated at a glace, assuming he doesn't date girls that don't meet his physical criteria(why would he?) that category can be completely discounted.
Also, (1) & (2) can be reasonably ascertained, at least in the pass/fail sense, in casual conversation. How many new girls can you strike up a casual conversation with a week? 3? 4? 50? Even if we lowball it, and say one every other day, thats at least 3 per week.
Of those 3 per week if he can get a date with one out of every 5 (20%) that gives him a date every 10 days to figure out (4) & (5). In this scenario, off of your numbers, a girl thats “good enough” will occur once in every 25 dates. Thats 8-9 months of dating before finding someone “good enough” to go long term with.
Not quite so depressing. Especially if he's the type to casually date multiple girls before (or, I guess, even after) things turn serious/long term/ commitment bound.
Lubeboy, I wouldn't worry about what your friends think. They aren't the ones that are going to have to put up with a sub-par girlfriend if you lower your standards, you are.