{"id":630,"date":"2013-06-17T07:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2013-06-14T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T02:09:35","slug":"the-mystery-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/2013\/06\/17\/the-mystery-math\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>She has faith in the mystery math percentages provided by an online dating site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how the mystery math behind this sites percentages are calculated? There are three people trapped in a cage that randomly squawk out numbers and sometimes recipes for rye bread. At first those numbers were used to play Powerball but with a 1 in 327,845,112 chance of winning it was decided that these numbers could be used to predict the &#8220;match&#8221; worthiness of strangers based on answers to such questions as, &#8220;Which is bigger: The Sun or a Sundae?&#8221; Well how big is that Sundae? I was at a state fair once and they had a really big Sundae. And a 100 year old tortoise named Margret that loved the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my theory for where these numbers come from. What&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nAnthony<\/p>\n<p><em>Based on my calculations I have better chance of being Axl Rose than I do of her responding.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has faith in the mystery math percentages provided by an online dating site. Hi, Do you know how the mystery math behind this sites percentages are calculated? 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