XKCDthe famous webcomic for nerds, has a new comic up about "dating pools". Someone found some census data, and reports that the pool are less something bri blossom onlyfans leaks were than XKCD suggests.

Another figure suggests that XKCD was basically right Here the number of available partners does show pool concave shape. Even though I am too lazy to do the graphing, I am inclined, based on intuition, to believe the latter curves rather than the former.

I wonder if anyone out there cares to clear up this controversy.

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I am sure your paper would fly thru peer review at the venerable Annals of Improbable Research. Just make sure you credit me as a co-author in keeping with the guidelines for giving credit where credit is due: Anyway, back to the graph.

The situation is poor for single women past 35 dating of age; they far outnumber single men of a similar age. Interestingly the sex ratio at birth is 1. The genetics of sex ratio are a very interesting story, which I will cover at some point.

However, men are stupid, risk-taking fools whose bodies tend to degenerate faster, thus women tend to live, on average, six years longer than men. Men, that is those that haven't offed themselves in some ridiculous stunt, will enjoy less competition for mates once they are past the age of On the other hand, there are some folks who can mathematically demonstrate xkcd they will remain single for all time. Well, happy blogiversary. But for the next posts on your blog, will you please stop posting about my poor dating odds???

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