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Quick question about probability

 
 
Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 10:04 pm
Kicky has had four beers and is feeling pretty nice. His friends have gone and he's home now, but he's thinking about going back out. He will do this, however, only if he believes he has a fairly decent chance of meeting and taking home a girl from a bar tonight.

It's about midnight. He's an average-looking guy who is also fairly shy, but after having these four beers, he is probably just as open and gregarious as most normal people.

Given the information above, what are Kicky's chances of picking up some girl in a bar within the next two hours?

Oh, by the way, he is horrible at making small talk. And one more thing. I need to know within the next five minutes. Otherwise, he will probably just get comfortable and watch TV until he passes out on the couch.

Thanks!
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kickycan
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 10:10 pm
Okay, it's been five minutes. I'm going to risk it and go back out to the bar.

Thanks for all your wonderful advice. It was all so interesting and informative. NOT!
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2007 10:23 pm
Well, 4 beer won't get you to perform properly, kicky, and going
out for an additonal beer or two will diminish your performance
even more.

Not a good starting point if you're looking for some amorous
encounter. Should have had champagne instead, dear!
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stuh505
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2007 12:31 am
Hmm, well..

P(XXX | Shy, 4Beer ,AvgLooks) = P(Shy,4Beer,AvgLooks | XXX) * P(XXX) / P(Shy,4Beer,AvgLooks)

Assuming independence,

= P(Shy | XXX) * P(4Beer | XXX) * P(AvgLooks | XXX) * P(XXX) / (P(Shy) * P(4Beer) * P(AvgLooks) )

By definition,

P(AvgLooks) = 0.5

According to Goolge,

P(XXX) = 0.05
P(Shy) = 0.6
P(4Beer) = 0.4
P(Shy | XXX) = 0.1
P(4Beer | XXX) = 0.1
P(AvgLooks | XXX) = 0.5

Plugging in,

= 0.00833, so you have roughly a 1 in 120 chance of getting laid tonight.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2007 05:03 am
Did the kickyman get lucky


Did he get some stank on his hanglow?


Is he dealing with a problem of getting her out so he can get on with Saturday?

Will he lock her in the trunk of his car and dump her in the Meadowlands?


These and other questions will be answered after he wakes up at 11.

Im gonna say No, since he usually regales his unsuspecting targets with discussions of how he likes to take trophies of his encounters.
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plantress
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2007 05:38 am
well if he did I hope it was with someone just as lovely and articulate as mr kick...hopefully she went out for the same reason and disclosed any diseases
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kickycan
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2007 05:50 pm
stuh505 wrote:
Hmm, well..

P(XXX | Shy, 4Beer ,AvgLooks) = P(Shy,4Beer,AvgLooks | XXX) * P(XXX) / P(Shy,4Beer,AvgLooks)

Assuming independence,

= P(Shy | XXX) * P(4Beer | XXX) * P(AvgLooks | XXX) * P(XXX) / (P(Shy) * P(4Beer) * P(AvgLooks) )

By definition,

P(AvgLooks) = 0.5

According to Goolge,

P(XXX) = 0.05
P(Shy) = 0.6
P(4Beer) = 0.4
P(Shy | XXX) = 0.1
P(4Beer | XXX) = 0.1
P(AvgLooks | XXX) = 0.5

Plugging in,

= 0.00833, so you have roughly a 1 in 120 chance of getting laid tonight.


That's probably pretty accurate. Although, Farmerman is way better with numbers and statistics than I am. Maybe he can shed some more light on the actual numbers.

At any rate, it might as well have been a bajillion to one, because I didn't get none. The closest I came was at Cabin Fever on York Avenue. I started talking to three cute little drunken sweetiepies (well, one of them was a cute little sweetiepie and the other two were just kind of bitchy drunken dumbasses) at the bar while they were looking for songs to sing (it was karaoke night).

I was able to get through the small talk portion of the exchange by pointing out songs that I thought they should do for Karaoke, but when I started offering drinks to the drunk cutie, her ****blocker friends went into attack mode. There was a fifteen-twenty minute verbal tug-of-war over who was going to leave with the drunken cutiepie, me or the two ****blockers. The ****blockers won, the three of them chose to sing "Grease", and I left, disgusted at both my lack of a broad to lay with and having to hear their drunken rendition of that ridiculous f*cking song.
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