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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

J Stats

When I entered online dating purposefully about six months ago, I had an open mind to what I would encounter. More than anything, I sought to increase the amount of positive feedback in my personal life. Parenting teenagers doesn't always afford that sweetness, and since my free time had recently doubled to two whole nights a week, I thought I could manage an influx of socialization.

I had been on a handful of truly blind dates in the prior four years, strictly relying on the acquaintances of people I knew. As might be predicted, that turned into a second date just once.
Mathematically speaking, 20% of the time.
His name started with J.

With the first six months of intentional online date dabbling coming to a close, there's a new round of statistics oddly interesting to me:

Two of my first four dates had names that started with the letter J.

To date (and to the best of my memory), 36% of the men I have agreed to meet have J names.

(There are other multiples too; 2 had M names. 2 had A names.)
(Given my family naming practices, this is also slightly fascinating).)

100% of my J dates I saw three or more times.

Typical span of other dates: 1

Number of dates without J names I went out with more than twice: 1.

Number of men I was on the fence about meeting and then didn't because I learned his name also started with a J: 1.

The J thing is what, a coincidence? A generational likelihood?
A similar phenomenon happened at my birthday event this year, a congregation of K names. At one point, 14 people were in attendance and 50% of them had names that started with the letter K. (Mostly female, one of them was male). Weird, right?

To qualify for the math olympiad of my dating stats, how many men have I met?
;)
(Yes, I do know there's not enough information provided to answer that).

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