Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: sacg1198@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott A Cattanach) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Anger & Dating for the first time: Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 90 07:22:26 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai) writes: >In article >charlie@lindy.stanford.edu (Charlie Channel) writes: >>In article >djcl@contact.uucp (woody) writes: >>>just in case i didn't get the numbers right, the unmarried M:F ratio (ages >>>20-29) should be 108:100, ie. more M than F. >> >More males are born than females, but males die more quickly, so it evens >out. Complicating this is that the majority of women tend to prefer older >men in this society. The odds aren't really that bad; better than 11:10 >if you're male. Just lower your standards and it'll be easy to find a >partner. :) :) :) I'm curious, do these numbers apply to the church as well or do they skew somewhat in either direction if the non-Christians are removed? I have no idea myself, an argument could probably be made in either direction. -- -catt (catt@uiuc.edu) I've never really trusted Smokey the Bear. Everytime I see him I wonder what happened to the Boy Scout that was orginally wearing that hat.