Why Can’t I find a Girlfriend?

After a while without a serious girlfriend I recently began wondering if my standards were too high, or maybe there is a problem with me? I of course by natural male tendency refuse to believe the latter. I believe the situation can be explained with basic demographics and simple calculus based statistics.

To get things started I will not relocate to find a woman. So I will only take the demographics from the county in which I live in. According to the census there are 349,958 females in this region. Now of course I would like to date someone close to my age, about plus or minus 3 years sounds reasonable. So 21-27 years of age is our desired sample space, but the census data is only broken down into ages of 21-24 and 25-34. Since dating an older woman might be kinda hot I will use 21-34 as my sample space. The total number of women in this age group is 65,842. Whoah, that sounds like a lot of chicks right?

Possible matches remaining: 65,842

Like most other guys I want a beautiful woman. And I am a fairly picky guy so I will go two standard deviations above the norm. Assuming that beauty is normally distributed of course.

After multiplying this value by the number of females in the desired age range we are left with 1,498 women.

Possible matches remaining: 1,498

I also refuse to date an unintelligent girl. Not to brag, but for scientific proposes, with an I.Q. in about the top 2% of the population I would like to date a girl in at least the top 5%. Which in turn lowers the pool of candidates to 75.

Possible matches remaining: 75

Also keep in mind that not all of these women are single. So according to general observations I will say that on average half of all females in this age group are available. We are now left with 37 women.

Possible matches remaining: 37

I can honestly admit that not every woman is throwing their panties at me, so realistically of course not all of these remaining women would date me. So let’s say that conservatively about 1 in 5 would be attracted to me. This leaves only 7 women.

Total possible matches: 7

Wow, 7 possible matches in my area! With 656,700 total people currently living in my county, let’s say I talk to 3 complete strangers on an average day. The odds of running into one of these 7 women on any giving day are about 31,000 to 1.

So, after these calculations one can easily conclude that my standards really aren’t too high, there is simply a lack of highly intelligent supermodels in my area.

Please note: If one of these seven aforementioned women happen to be reading this, don’t hesitate to contact me.

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Inspired by Tristan Miller