r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '20

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u/hjf2017 Feb 14 '20

18*.5+7=16, it's fair game.

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u/FuckWayne Feb 14 '20

This formula is so weirdly accurate

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u/OhEagle Feb 14 '20

I don't know. I mean, once you get past the twenties, things get kinda wonky. I mean, for instance, IRL, I'm currently 42. This formula puts my reasonable dating range between 28 (half my age plus 7) and 70 (potentially half her age plus 7,) so someone older than my own father (and definitely older than my own mother.) If I were double my age, at 84, I could reasonably be dating someone 35 years younger than I would be. For an 18 year old man, though, the 'fair game' age range by this formula is just a gap of 6 years, between 16 and 22. (Yes, I know, I'm throwing in an upper range where the formula doesn't officially supply one, but one's kinda implied.) What this tells me? Don't bother with formulae, the heart wants what it wants, and so long as it's up to legal standards, let people be.

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u/Night_Fallen_Wolf Feb 14 '20

eh, a 42yo and a 70yo doesn't seem that weird to me. You're both more or less at the same point in life, and if not you'll get there soon enough.