• UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That assumes all people on the planet though. 2 billion people are under 15 and 1 billion are over 65 though (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-by-age-group). That leaves about 4.5 billion people. Taking marriage into account, in the US and the EU, roughly the number of people who are currently married that are adults is 40% (https://onlinemftprograms.com/worldwide-marriage-statistics/). If we assume that to be true worldwide, that reduces the number to about 2 billion. Therefore, if you are between 18-50 and assuming the number of people who find you attractive is 1%, the number of potential partners who think you are attractive is closer to 20,000,000. That also excludes people already in relationships who are not married. Still a lot of fish in the sea nonetheless.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    This does nothing for my self esteem, but it does serve as a functional reminder that 1% is a large percentage of high numbers and many things have a much lower likelihood than 1%, even though humans tend to be biased to believe otherwise.

  • Omega@discuss.online
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    6 months ago

    Recalculate it with your city or district in mind

    You’re looking for, in my case, 6000 people out of 600000, and many of those are out of your age range or not of your preferred gender, not to mention they might not be looking for someone

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      6 months ago

      Let’s do this with my county, and add in the gay clause!

      So roughly 40k population. Around half are women, so let’s go to 20k. Around 10% are gay/bi/pan so 2000.

      Now 1% of that 2000… I’m looking at roughly 20 people. Of which the odds of them being in my age range, single, and not a meth head, a religious nutjob, or so totally anti religious as to prohibit us interacting is very, very slim. Add into that that I don’t think I could form a bond with someone who doesn’t share left wing, or at least progressive, tendencies… And… Yeah. I need to get the fuck out of this county and into a city, asap!

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Ahhhh, so I was wrong then. It’s ok to admit being wrong and learning from it.

    So it’s not that 99% of people find me unattractive, it’s 99.99999999% of people lol

    :P

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Then you’re still good. 75,000,000 - 1% = 74,250,000.

      Now, if you only find, say, 1% of people attractive, because you subscribe to ridiculous artificial beauty standards while also complaining that everyone applies those same artificial standards to you, then you’ve got a bit of a problem.

      • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        1% of people is completely responsible.

        For example: say,

        • 6% of people are near your age
        • 3% are of appropriate gender (to who it applies)
        • <2% are of similar ideological beliefs
  • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Too bad all 75,000,000 are grandmas and think you’re just a handsome boy and want to pinch your cheeks.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’m going to reduce the number by country, then age range, and not married. I’m down to 45,200… so there’s around 109,000 towns. So odds are if 99% don’t like me, there’s a better chance there is none in my town that would, than wouldn’t.

  • Adalast@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That’s roughly 1.644 people/square mile. Estimated by subtracting the area of Russia and Antarctica from the world land area of Earth. I’m guessing that the area of Russia about covers all of the uninhabitable areas of the planet aside from Antarctica.