How to Think Like a Genius 12-Calculations
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/08/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I used to do those calculations, but not for a girlfriend — to fall asleep.
Rick Rosner: Carole and I chaperoned a prom and a pretty hoity toity high school, and I didn’t [Laughing] any of that desperation in 95% of kids at the prom. It seemed so undesperate that is was weird. Partly, I think it’s people have more information now than I did in high school, and more of a community outside of high school. You can build your own community via media, and people are just not as dumb and ignorant as my friends and I were who thought we would never have sex before we die, but five minutes of statistics to us about that might have set us straight or we might have continued to wallow in our desperation.
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