Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes

artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"

Comments

Re:This isn't gonna help.

[MrNaz]

I know there's a joke about Schroedinger's Pussy in there somewhere, I just can't find it...

The real reason he can't find a girlfriend...

[Jason Levine]

The real reason he can't find a girlfriend? He decided to use the Drake Equation to show why he doesn't have a girlfriend!

(Counts on Slashdot readership to not RTFA and thus not know that he actually has a girlfriend now.)

newsflash....

[smash]

... he doesn't have a girlfriend because he's too busy "working" on stuff like this. get a hobby/join a club that is not male only. go outside, to club events. talk to plenty girls (they're people too) there. you'll pick up sooner or later.

sitting at home working on drake equations in your spare time, to explain why you don't have a girlfriend is exactly why you don't have one...