A PhD candidate at a British university has hypothesised his chances of meeting Mrs Right are one in 285,000. Not very promising is it?
A tongue-in-cheek paper written by Peter Backus at the University of Warwick used the Drake equation to determine his chances of meeting the love of his life. The formula was originally developed to determine the possible number of civilisations in our galaxy, the UK’sDaily Telegraphreported.
Backus replaced the figures from Drake’s formula with the number of women between the ages of 24 and 34, who are single, are university educated, who live in his home city of London and the percentage of women he thought would find him attractive.
The results found that there were a possible 26 women in Britain with whom he would have an ideal relationship with that could potentially lead to love.
“So, on a given night out in London there is a 0.0000034 percent chance of meeting one of these special people,” Backus wrote in his unpublished paper. “That’s a one in 285,000 chance, so it’s not great.”
