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our guesses were right. So there's a big difference. All right. How about this one? A 10-year projection or even a three-year or five-year. How about just projections that are based on good solid data and experts making them? Yeah, the projections are usually ridiculous. Usually ridiculous. How about the VAERS report? If the VAERS report is sending a really strong signal, what's that telling doc…
← Previous segment →same line of thinking and I don't know what's wrong with it. So I'm going to test it out on you and it goes like this.
If you're a woman and you're looking for a guy, correctly if I'm wrong, these are the standard things that women are looking for now and these are the things that they say most often. Now every woman is different, right? Every man is different. So this isn't all people. It's just sort of a generality. But here are the things. All right. And this will be a little quiz for you.
Women usually like taller men, over six feet tall. What percentage of American men are over six feet tall? Go. What percentage of American men are over six feet tall? Your guesses are unusually bad. Not usually bad. If I average your guesses I think they'd be right. The answer is 14.5 percent, right? So if you're a woman on your first filter, your first sort, you've eliminated 85 percent of all men because only 14.5 are above that.
Right now if you go up to six foot one, do you know how fast that drops? You get down to one percent really quickly. You know at around six three, six four it's down to like one percent. But let's say let's start with 14.5. So that's your story.
Now most women want a guy who can provide, right? No matter how modern the woman is they still like the guy to have a job that's serious. So how many men of any height, just men in general, American men, how many have an income over a hundred thousand a year? How many men? This is married, unmarried, just men. The answer is 13 percent. So if you were just simply going to find somebody who is tall and made over 100k a year, the math of it is you would multiply the two percentages together. So if you multiply 14.5 percent times 13 percent it starts getting really s
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mall really fast. And that's just two filters. Here's some more. Suppose you wanted a guy who was going to be faithful. You know, basic, right? You want a guy who's not going to cheat on you but he's also over six feet tall and he has a good income. What are the odds of somebody who is tall and has a good income, meaning the most desirable man, what are the odds that he will be faithful to one wo…
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