Human Intelligence

Ok, so I either had a deep thought or an episode of boredom induced insanity while I was sitting in class the other day.

Mathematical Proof of Human Stupidity:

“If” the universe is infinite, but the number of planets containing intelligent life is finite, then by letting:

x = the number of planets containing intelligent life
y = the size of the universe

Take the ratio of planets with intelligent life to the size of the universe while letting the size of the universe approach infinity.

lim x / y = 0
y → ∞

Proving that no planet contains intelligent life. I realize this theorem is unnecessary for predicting intelligent life on earth, because anybody that has ever been in a public place or watched TV can easily deduce that there is no intelligence in our part of the universe.

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

 

Einstein’s Logic Puzzle

I have been too lazy over Christmas break to write anything, so I thought I would post one of my favorite logic problems. Einstein claimed that less than 2% of the world’s population could solve it…

There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keep a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.

CLUES:

• The Brit lives in the red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is just to the left of the white house.
• The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Malls raises birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the center house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Bluemasters also drinks beer.
• The German smokes Prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is, who keeps the fish?

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