“Analytics will not help you in your love life. Just feel.” – my horoscope on a random TV screen in Jumpin Java
I recently listened to an episode of This American Life that described the statistics behind finding “the one.” A Harvard Phd student described the sad and sobering stats that him and the other physicists calculated. I was originally planning on doing my own calculation for the SF bay area… but when I saw my horoscope I have decided not to…
I did however dig up some good stats for the calculation. Not everyone has the same requirements but for me, things weren’t looking that great…
- 7.5M people in the SF bay area
- ~40% are between the age of 18 – 39 (yea, I know this is a pretty big age range, but I was trying to have an open mind)
- ~30% have a bachelors degree or higher
A few stats that I haven’t been able to find… and perhaps for the better:
- How many are women? I’m guessing this can’t be that good…
- How many of those women are single? This might be better than other parts of the country…
- How many are shorter than me? Yes, I have a weird complex.
yea i don’t believe in “the one”… there’s gotta be at least 2 or 3 out there somewhere…
i thought that episode was really interesting! i felt so bad for the female harvard physicist when her number reduced to zero.
i am obsessed with this american life. i stream it everyday at work and am soo sad i didnt get tickets to tonight’s life show!! tell me some other ones you like and we can share!!
yea… well there aren’t too many guys that are smarter than a harvard physics professor…