SETI - the Search for Exciting Taiwanese Intelligences - has preoccupied me for a while.
I know some stunningly sexy women. Some of them are single. I know some cool and interesting people too. And some of them are single. I even know people who are smart, vivacious, energetic, healthy, positive, curious about everything, etc.
But I don’t know any reasonably presentable single women who are interesting, energetic, smart, and otherwise able to hold my attention for long. Theoretically they must be out there, but I just don’t meet them. (Which is odd, as my job requires me to meet a lot of people.)
So I’m left with this kind of Fermi Paradox. Where is everybody? Of course, I could just be looking in the wrong places, but before asking that question in D&R, I’d first like to try and be a bit more scientific here in this forum and try and get some meaningful figures about Taiwan in general - and how best to interpret them. So I’ve come up with this variation on the Drake Equation.
N = P x F x A x S x E x I x O x C x F x M x T
(Each of the terms except the first is a percentage)
Can anyone help me refine this, or help quantify the result? I wasn’t sure what to do about attractiveness, language ability, and stuff like smoking and drinking/clubbing because they might be too heavily influenced by the other stuff.
Anyway:
N = number of possibly compatible “other”
P = population, which I’m limiting to the Taipei Metropolitan Area, although a better measure would be “within one hour of my home”. Wikipedia puts this number at 6,752,826
F = the percentage that are female, say 50%
A = within an acceptable age range. Assuming life expectancy of 70 years, then say 1.4% of the population for every year within your range. I’m going for the absolute maximum here, by accepting anyone between legal age and middle-age collapse, a period of 30 years, or 42%
S = single and available. I’m guessing that most teens are single, but probably not available (in general terms, not just for me) whereas few older women are single but the ones that are are probably available. A total guess gives me a figure of 20%
E = energetic. I’m no athlete, but I can’t stand those bovine lasses that refuse to walk anywhere and never want to do anything. A simple benchmark I use is “does she stand still on the escalator or does she walk?” - 10%?
I = interests. Learning English and dating foreigners don’t count. Neither do shopping, sleeping, karaoke, or eating. Must have something going on that makes her stand out. Hmmm, 20%?
O = goes outside. Sunshine, hiking, beach, all that good stuff. If there’s anyone left by now, I’d say that only 10% of them fit this requirement if I’m being really optimistic.
C = can do. Stop making fucking excuses. Just do it. Enough said? 10%
F = family not getting in the way. Impossible, I know. In all probability it’s not even 1%, so I’m going to optimistic and say that I’m completely wrong and use a value of 100% instead.
M = mobile phone doesn’t rule your life. When you’re with me, turn the bloody thing off, or at least to silent and exercise some restraint when answering it. And you don’t need to call me every 20 minutes when we’re not together. This is basically an issue of insecurity, so maybe I should change this term to reflect the big problem. Anyway… 20%?
T = aware of time. Late is rude. 10%
Anything I’ve forgotten? Any refinements on the numbers? Currently I’m at
N = 6,752,826 x 50% x 42% x 20% x 10% x 20% x 10% x 10% x 100% x 20% x 10%
N = 1
If anyone knows this girl, would you put her in touch? Thanks.