An Exercise in Abusing Statistics
Jan. 2nd, 2005 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythNow, most of this is completely pulling numbers out of my butt, but here goes.
Assume, for the moment, the existence of One True Love. Everybody has one person who'd be utterly perfect for them in a relationship. Obviously, it has to be someone currently alive and so on. So, there's more than six billion people on Earth, so the odds of meeting them are one in six billion.
As a random guess, about 1/3 the people would be the appropriate gender and old enough to count, so that's 1 in 18 billion. BUT!
If, as a guess at an average, we say each person meets three new people a day, then it's 1 in 6 billion again, and with six billion people, then the chances of somebody meeting their True Love on any given day is 1 to 1. Unfortunately, you might not be that somebody.
And I'm not sure about the whole True Love thing anyway, but it's a hopeful thought, no?
Assume, for the moment, the existence of One True Love. Everybody has one person who'd be utterly perfect for them in a relationship. Obviously, it has to be someone currently alive and so on. So, there's more than six billion people on Earth, so the odds of meeting them are one in six billion.
As a random guess, about 1/3 the people would be the appropriate gender and old enough to count, so that's 1 in 18 billion. BUT!
If, as a guess at an average, we say each person meets three new people a day, then it's 1 in 6 billion again, and with six billion people, then the chances of somebody meeting their True Love on any given day is 1 to 1. Unfortunately, you might not be that somebody.
And I'm not sure about the whole True Love thing anyway, but it's a hopeful thought, no?
