BS: The Science of Bachelor(ette)hood

So statistically speaking, I believe that 80% of people who throw out statistical reports are completely full of it. Unless you have a PowerPoint in front of you or you are running for something, I just don't think it's natural to carry around many statistics in your head and so I think that when someone pulls out a, "If there are 30 of you in this room, 3 of you here will not marry in this lifetime," I think they might just be making it up. However, I was having a conversation with a friend recently, during which she expressed the budding thought that it may be a possibility that she never marries. This of course led to some pondering on my own part and I remembered that on a number of occasions, I have been in a room when such a marriage statistic was given. As I look around the room in my minds eye, I find that I am one of the few reaming who have not yet married and/or begun repopulating the earth. If you are one of those others in the room and I am doomed to spinsterhood so that the rest of you twenty seven could live in wedded bliss, know this: that the sacrifice was unwillingly given. I do however find comfort in the fact that I do not live in the days of which Jane Austen wrote her wit covered, bitterness laden books. Whereas Anne in Persuasion had a fate sealed in solitude at age 28, I at a mere 25, though in a culture almost as ridiculous about the age of marriage, have found only a few wrinkles and one gray hair and still feel very much in my prime. To friends out there who share my state of things, and those who don't, I want you to know that science isn't everything. My dad is a science teacher and he used to say physics is everywhere, and he is right. I am talking about the scientific method...I found this online as a good way of explaining the scientific method. Swans...

Observation: Every swan I've ever seen is white.
Hypothesis: All swans must be white.
Test: A random sampling of swans from each continent where swans are indigenous produces only white swans.
Publication: "My global research has indicated that swans are always white, wherever they are observed."
Verification: Every swan any other scientist has ever observed in any country has always been white.
Theory: All swans are white.
http://www.wilstar.com/theories.htmu

This article goes on to say that in fact there are black swans. So...point is, though the data collected throughout a life may seem like something won't happen, it can. The Wright brothers never flew...until they did. Abe Lincoln never got elected for a single election...and then there was that one for...oh PRESIDENT. And so you haven't dated much or successfully...and someday you do! Things change! So all the theories and statistics might just be a whole lot of BS!