The 37% is a great reference for math nerds! It’s ⅟𝑒, the number of candidates one should sample before waiting for a better one to maximize the chances of picking the best one in a pick-or-pass scenario. See Secretary problem on Wikipedia
The Internet is so fucking weird sometimes. I had literally never heard of the 37% / Secretary Problem until this morning when someone else commented about it in a different thread. Then I immediately noticed it in this comic and saw your comment.
It’s like when you never notice a car until you buy one and then see that same car everywhere.
It is our mind that’s weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Dammit. Now I’m gonna be noticing shit about Frequency Illusion for the next few weeks.
Or maybe the person who mentioned the 37% / secretary problem on the other thread had recently read this post here which is what reminded them of it, so they mentioned it there, then you saw both!
I completely missed that, nice catch 😄
I came here to say this as well! Ofc it’s severely undercounting when you consider the problem where the candidate must choose you back. So lucky him!
I don’t think the 1/e strategy changes just because candidates have a chance of rejecting you.
Exactly, it is just taken into account in their evaluation. A person respecting consent will just reevaluate that relationship opportunity as 0 and move on to the next candidate or stay alone.
I think it does. For it to work, you’d need to be trying to find the first candidate in the 63% who would choose you back who is better than the best candidate in the 37% who would choose you back. If you can’t verify that last part then it won’t work I think.
uh, what does interviewing just south of 200 candidates suggest?
i am trying to hire a competent ceiling fan installatrix
Coincidentally, 37 is the funniest number.
37 again?!
Is his name Dave or Steve?
It’s Dave Steve.
That’s my cat’s name. What a coincidence.
The code of my luggage is 1234.
That’s the second stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life!
If there was some non-consensual sex that the woman weirdly likes, this would be an Ayn Rand fan fic.
This got a very hearty chuckle from me out loud.
A sequential mate search seems too inefficient for the likes of her.
Unfortunately she is unable to do simultaneous multithreading.
However, she can have a pipeline, branch prediction, and context switch.
I bet she could do double threading if she just loosened up a little.
These cost cutting bean counter types are killing society and the planet. Fuck these people.
If I had to say which group of people were killing the planet, I’d say it’s people who don’t think about things at all and just do whatever they’re told. You know, people with authoritarian personalities.
I think the authoritarian personalities usually make the demands themselves, and do the twisting and manipulation of “getting things done”.
But I get who you mean… The easily molded “patriots” who obey and do whatevers asked of them. The ones who go along fully and enthusiastically with the narrative authorities give them… Because they too want to see and conduct the violence.
I didn’t mean to be confusing, as you may not recognize the term. Here’s the introduction sentence from its wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality
The authoritarian personality is a personality type characterized by a disposition to treat the voice of authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect.
Oh, I thought you were just using it generically rather than as a technical term. Actually I also didn’t know it had a follower aspect to it.
I do like how Adorno tested for it by way of inference, giving people tests on how they would raise a child to reveal their preferences for fascist rules. Very clever.
I think there’s a part in “Minima moralia: Reflections on a damaged life” where he discusses his school bullies, and their obsession with navy tattoos which suggests a certain Authoritarian personality was sweeping Germany at the time. I guess that’s like Trump supporters today when they go all Karen, or how there’s a rise in rightwing views in young men.
