Comment on Anon's friend gets exposed

• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m 32 and if a 23 year old asked me out I’d say “Aren’t you adorable?”, pat her head and send her on her way.

  That’s a college student. Who came up with this math? 😆 It does not compute.

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  • Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The rule is well-known and easy to calculate from the mind. But it does have flaws in that awkwardness regard.

    Still weirds me out that according to the rule, a 75 year old could date a 45 year old. Maybe the graph should be called “Legally OK, socially questionable” - ie. the grey zone.

    A version that could exclude this socially grey zone would be;

    (age * 0.75) + 3.25
    

    The .25 is added to make more numbers less strange. Round to nearest full number. If the outcome is higher than the person’s own age, that indicates you’re too young to date. In this case the ‘minimum’ would be 15 for both involved, similar to the original formula.

    For 20, it’d be 18.
    For 25, it’d be 22.
    For 45, it’d be 37.
    For 75, it’d be 60.
    For 90, it’d be 71.

    Inversely, it’d mean that the maximum ages would be calculated as:

    (age / 0.75) - 3.25
    

    20 and 23.
    25 and 30.
    45 and 57.
    75 and 97.
    90 and 117.

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    • freeman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You think a 75 yo is taking advantage of a 45 yo? That 45 yo are not mature enough?

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      • Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you read back, you can see it’s more of a graph for “what would socially not be odd”.

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  • majster@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At 23 she could be 5 years in the workforce. People vary quite a lot.

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  100 could date a 57 year old. 12 yo a 13 yo but not a 12 yo.

  Works perfectly.

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  • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What the rule is saying there is that a 12 year old shouldn’t date, because that region of the graph is actually outside of the lower and upper bounds, which intercept (cross) at “14 years old” on the x axis

    Or you could interpret the UB and LB as having swapped, in which case 12’s LB is (-7, ×2) =10 years old.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m just musing it’s kind of stupid to make it a math problem “one size fits all”. Who the hell should have the right to tell 50 year grownups they can’t date lol.

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