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Friday, April 02, 2010

That makes 11.

"The "Amanda Rule" states that if a man knows, by some means, that the jth woman he has encountered is actually the very best, then a Bayesian estimate for the number N of women he would have expected to meet overall is roughly e times j. Of course, if he has already determined that the kth woman is the very best, he presumably has no interest in the remaining j(e-1) candidates, so the formula is of only academic interest."

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