when you're interested in someone...

College Life
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<p>okay, i know this might sound a little dumb… but it just occured to me and made me wonder… that, when you’re interested in someone, when something about them sparks you, (something more than their looks), what are the chances that there could be a connection? since you find something interesting about them, that means you guys could have something in common, and could eventually end up as friends, right? this might be hard to understand. for example, say, something about x in class interests me. maybe i think the comments they make are funny, or i like what they write. since i’m interested in them, what are the chances that they’d return that interest? i know it depends, but are there some stats for this? well, i guess when you’re interested in someone, you want them to like you back, and so you probably think in your mind that they’d be interested too… don’t know… just think this is interesting. :)</p>

<p>p.s. and i don’t mean “interest” as in “hooking up”, but you just find something intriguing about them.</p>

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<p>when you try to break relationships into percentages and numbers and logic, you are trying too hard. it would be nice, but it just isnt how it works</p>

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<p>any two strangers can end up as friends if they try hard enough. if you’re “interested,” it makes it that much easier to put in the effort</p>

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<p>Spit some game.</p>

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<p>One in five.</p>

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<p>haha…quantifying relationships. well, yes…technically, there IS a field that studies that and your assumptions are generally correct. all other things being equal, if there are similarities in your interests, you are more likely to become friends than if you had nothing in common. exact stats would be difficult (although not entirely impossible) to derive. statistically, it would be the square of the correlation coefficient, r, of the correlation between some operational definition of “similarities” (possibly measured as average amount of similarity across several scales). The square of r (r^2) is, by definition, the percent weight which a given factor presumably carries in causing a given outcome.</p>

<p>But, let’s be honest, there’s really no particularly practical way of giving a number for this and it’s really not going to help you unless you’re a researcher in social psychology!</p>

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<p>I guess you need to get Charlie Epps’ book.</p>

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The chances are 64%</p>

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<p>^ MidwestMom - the chances are 63%. Duh.</p>

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<p>I’m 45% sure that you’re within 10%, Johnson.</p>

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<p>60% of the time it works, every time.</p>

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<p>depends if you got game</p>

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<p>haha, Son of Opie…niiiice. it’s got bits of real panther so you KNOW it’s good.</p>

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<p>No one catches someone’s eye across the bar and thinks to themself, “hmm… she looks loyal. I should buy her a drink.”</p>