I recently read a posting from a young lady who was wondering why it's so hard to find a date in NYC when there are so many eligible bachelors, her estimate was 2 million. She then went on to describe what she was looking for, the typical tall, dark and handsome, athletic and successful father of her future children.
Here is the breakdown :
2,000,000 available men of whom 20% are taller than 6', average height for men is 5"9. So now we are at 400,000 available tall men. Of those about half have an athletic build, work-out on a regular basis. So we have 200,000 tall, fit men left. Of those men, about 60% are heterosexual, leaving 120,000 available. Of the 120,000 tall, fit, straight guys left only 20% could be considered handsome by the very discerning group of women posting on cl, leaving us with 42,000 tall, fit, straight and handsome available men. Of those men only 10% are succe$$ful enough to attract the alpha-cl female leaving 4,200 available. Of those 4,200 only about 5% (conservatively) are reading these postings by the lovely ladies of cl, which means only a few hundred men of this type are potentially going to read your posting. Of those only a few brave souls will respond with a picture.