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Re:Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drak... by cduan on Thursday January 14, 2010 @04:42AM (#1052262)
When this guy goes out at night, he meets a perfectly random sample of people from London, totally uncorrelated to any of his variables? Where is this stochastic heaven? The statisticians want to know!

(Put another way, maybe he should frequent more singles bars in educated neighborhoods, where the clientele is of about his age and attractive to him.)

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Re:Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drak... by potatolicious on Thursday January 14, 2010 @04:48AM (#1052266)
Yep. Thankfully, unlike the search for sentient life, there are ways we can significantly increase nearly all of his probabilities with just a little bit of thought.
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Re:Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drak... by therealazeem on Thursday January 14, 2010 @05:06AM (#1052288)
He is using the wrong equation. His problem is not to do with being in stochastic hell. It is his search strategy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
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Re:Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drak... by mahmud on Thursday January 14, 2010 @04:55AM (#1052276)
Cheers for "stochastic heaven".

Most profound concept for others to grok.

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