#dating pools

[yesterdays-xkcd]

The full analysis is of course much more complicated, but I can't stay to talk about it because I have a date.

Dating Pools [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Megan is sitting on the ground with her elbows on her knees and her hands on her chin.] Megan: This sucks. The median first marriage age is 26. The pool of singles is shrinking. I'm running out of time. Cueball: Actually, not quite.

Cueball: Yes, older singles are rarer. But as you get older, the dateable age range gets wider. An 18-year-old's range is 16–22, whereas a 30-year-old's might be more like 22–46. Text on chart: Standard creepiness rule: Don't date under (Age/2 + 7)

Cueball: I did some analysis of this with the Census Bureau numbers just last weekend. Your dating pool actually grows until middle age. So don't fret so much! [The first chart is labeled "Singles" and is a decreasing graph. The second graph is labeled Dating Pool, and is a bell curve.]

Megan: Did your analysis say anything about the dating prospects of people who spend weekends at home making graphs? Cueball: Come on. Somewhere at the edge of the bell curve is the girl for me.

[kevindrakewriter]

Dating Pools

[wallflowerw]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you have no right to tell other people who they should include in their dating pool. There is nothing wrong with a person looking for certain qualities in a person and refusing someone because they don’t have those qualities. That is NORMAL. That is dating and being an adult. Not everyone is compatible with everyone else. Just because you consider yourself a part of that person’s dating pool, doesn’t mean that person considers you a part of it-- nor are they in any way obligated to. If you get butthurt over someone rejecting you because you aren’t what they want in a partner, that is YOUR problem, not theirs. You can’t rely on other people to make you happy.