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Fair point regarding the average. But I stand by "vastly". Dating as a male who is breathing and can tie his shoelaces in downtown Toronto was absurdly easy due to the skew in numbers.


You might be overestimating your peers' ability to find a date relative to your own.


No, I'm comparing to my own previous track record. Unless men get drastically more date-able as they age, which might also be true.


You don't see any problems with that statistically?


There’s no question of statistics here, it is clearly an anecdote from personal experience that lines up with the original stats


Okay I just meant to say that the conclusions you find from personal experience have basically no correlation with what happens in the aggregate. But you were defending points as though they were applicable in the aggregate, or at least that was the implication.

No one should change their minds on a subject based on a single anecdote.

Further, that your experience lined up with original stats are similarly potentially unrelated and could be due to lots of variables specific to you that we don't know.

If your goal was to make a point, I don't think you've done that. Instead you've just highlighted a personal, mostly unrelated success story of yours. Which, that's fine, just not very convincing.




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