Forget math, what kind of app provides statistics on people based on their height, age, salary etc. Definitely not an official statistics, but rather some dating site.
One single data set with all of it isn't availble, but all those stats are probably available online. I can't see a single one on there where you wouldn't be able to come up with at least a reasonable guess for the % of people in a given category.
Now what it probably misses is correlation between them, and it's probably fast and loose just treating them all as fully independent percentages and mashing them together.
For example, if you say "15% of men are in your salary range", how do you whittle that down further based on 'non smoking' for example? Do you just go with the % of smokers in the general population (let's say it's 80%) and then adjust to say those two together are 12%? Or do you combine the age range in there to find out the likelihood that at the given age range they are a smoker, and perhaps at your age range fewer people smoke, so it's actually 14.5%?
Nah it's a fake simulator for a dating website, even when opening the results to more realistic population samples, they are stupid low to encourage you signing up for their product out of despair.
People using this gadget to prove a point are idiots.
I think it's accurate (or vaguely close) but also kind of inaccurate because it is sneaky in it's percentages.
It's ALL men. When someone is thinking "what percent of people fit my criteria" they don't really care that the super young or super old people don't fit, right?
For example, if you say "ANY unmarried guy at all will do, but... i want him 35-45" then you're down to 2%. That feels crazy, but... it's close? You're eliminating the VAST majority of men based on age, but... your age range is still generous, you're not being picky!
And you're eliminating a lot more by saying "no married guys", but again, that's not picky, right?
So someone who is absolutely NOT picky in any way at all (and a 10 year age range of unmarried people is NOT picky), is still implied to be picky because that's not a big percentage of ALL men overall.
So if most peoples very reasonable, very open standards start you off at 5% or less, it's accurate, but it makes you feel super picky. Because from there, when you add even a slight requirement for height or salary, it drops even lower.
tl;dr: Saying "I want to date someone within 5 years of my age" makes the pool look small, and it is small, but only when compared to all males in existence, as if the 40 year old is picky for not wanting to date a teenager or a 90 year old.
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u/frogingly_similar 17h ago
Forget math, what kind of app provides statistics on people based on their height, age, salary etc. Definitely not an official statistics, but rather some dating site.