Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter....

[jon_quinn]

I'm a nice guy right? I am. I'm lovely. I don't go out of my way to be mean. Sure, I am not the most interesting person alive but I'm not completely boring either. I can take a fairly good stab at making you laugh and making people happy is, you might be surprised to hear, one of the most satisfying things I think I could possibly do. I am to

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[reggie_c_king]

This is something I've pondered a great many times and have come to similar conclusions, but I fear there are a few more considerations.

How often do you meet and speak to new people? How many of these do you speak to at length, thus enabling you to judge their character? You may be able to make a good estimate by calculating how many friends you made in the last year - I, for example, met a healthy number of people last year, but would count only four or five of them as friends now. All of them were male. How many fit your criteria? What are the odds of you bumping into someone who meets your criteria and speaking to them?

Also, acception must be taken to your term 'Nice Guys.' While there are nice people and not so nice people, I would consider some of my friends who are very successful with women to be very nice and attribute their success to their niceness. Thus, we must consider that there are different types of niceness and that these different types appeal to women in different quantities. How would we quantify this? I don't know. Who much do you differ from the average man?

I think as well that those who are looking for love will be more likely to find it, because a) they put in more effort and b) they may lower their expectations to obtain your goal. How might this consideration effect your probability of finding love? How might it effect the probability of your prospective partner?

The most important thing to consider, though, is that this is not a lone venture. While you have worked out the probability of your finding the woman of your dreams, you must also work out the probability of you being the man of hers. What are the chances of a woman sharing your interests, finding you attractive, funny and attentive? And then actually being in the same point in space/time and communicating with you?

Once you have these two probabilites, multiply them together and you will have the probability of the meeting actually occuring.

[jon_quinn]

Soul destroying isn't it.

Impossible.