The Soulmate Manifesto: Uniting All Soulmate Believers in an Effort to Solve Dating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Search financial cost is the amount of money you spend to expand and maintain existing social networks. The bigger your social network is, the more money is needed to maintain it. If you are selective, you will need a bigger social network to find your soulmate. Mathematically, search financial cost is written as: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Financial Cost to Expand and Maintain Existing Social Network Size Expanding and maintaining your social networks require you to invest financially. That means money for buying drinks, dinner, club cover charges, association membership fees, phone bills, and gas to travel. For productive people, search time cost translates to search financial cost. You could have used the time wasted on dating to further your career. Insights and Predictions
Selectiveness Cost The more selective you are, the more it will cost you to find your soulmate. I have constructed a Soulmate Calculator on the web site. Depending on how selective you are, it will estimate how many singles you need to meet to find your soulmate and how much your search financial cost will be. The calculator uses the latest statistics from the U.S. Census and the National Center for Health Statistics. Below is a table of advertising rates using different methods of finding people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Using going to a bar as an example, the cost to meet 1,000 opposite-sexed singles is calculated as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Now, let us hypothetically assume you are a picky person and we will do a cost analysis. Below are your criteria for a soulmate. Non-related traits are traits that are least likely to be associated with each other. For example, you can be really good-looking but not too bright. We can not use a criterion like income because it is influenced by looks, emotional intelligence, and intelligence. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The probability of finding someone whose facial attractiveness is in the top 30 percentile of the population is 30 out of 100, or 30%. For the other 9 traits we find out the individual probability for each. Take the probability of each trait and multiply them together. The final probability is 0.000000384. Then take the number 1 and divide by this probability. Assuming you are heterosexual, the result will be 2,604,167, the number of opposite-sexed singles you have to meet in order to find one person who meets your soulmate criteria.
If you choose to go to bars to meet people, your search financial cost would be: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2,604,167 opposite-sexed singles x $89/1000 opposite-sexed singles = $23,371,771 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This does not include time wasted or gas money for driving to bars. However, if you are this picky, going to every bar in town would not give you access to 2.6 million opposite-sexed singles. If you are bold and decide that you would do whatever it takes to find your soulmate, you would buy billboard ads at the busiest local highways. This will cost you about:
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| 2,604,167 opposite-sexed singles x $8/1000 opposite-sexed singles = $2,100,833 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As you can guess, by adding other criteria like age, height, ethnicity, religion, location, degrees, or income, your probability decreases dramatically. As your probability decreases, your search financial cost increases. Keep in mind this is only the cost to find one person that meets your soulmate criteria. There is no guarantee that you will meet his/her soulmate criteria. Insights and Predictions
Tactics to Lower Selectiveness Cost
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