[TVMayor]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

So what are the other 50,000 people if they are neither male or female?

Let me guess, married.

[784caroline]

The STATS used are from 2010 or 4 years old......in 4 years we added 30-40thousand people.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by 784caroline

The STATS used are from 2010 or 4 years old......in 4 years we added 30-40thousand people.

That would have been my guess. But I would assume that the percentages have stayed about the same. I can't find the article right now, (actually, I'm just too lazy to search for it) but it said that the ratio was about 48% to 52%. That, to me, only by observation seems to be about right.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by TVMayor

Let me guess, married.

The article nor the stats in the OP mention single or married. They both are about residents.

In fact the subject of the original article is a married woman and the article goes on to describe wife swapping parties.

My post was a bit tongue in cheek. I assumed that it was an old census. If I'm not mistaken, The Villages has doubled in size in the past five years.

[janmcn]

Originally Posted by The Mountaineer

I don't know who started the lie, but the official cenus is

24,069 men

27,373 women

That's 53.2% women, 46.8% men

Odds favor a guy having more than one gal, but hardly 10-1. So I guess the rest of the article must be as inaccurate, too.

Although STDs among 55+ in Central Florida, which includes more than The Villages, is up 50 to 70%, which is pretty stiff increase.

Perhaps the author of the article was talking about available women versus available men, ie single, divorced, widowed. A good way to verify these figures would be to attend a singles club meeting.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

That COULD mean three or four people in OUR hundred thousand. Only the Shadow knows.


I wonder how many need depends?

Exactly, Gracie. There are approximately 300,000,000 in this country. Approximately 45% are over the age of 45 which is about 135,000,000 people. The fact that the number of STD cases went from 900 to 2500 in a decade is nothing. In fact they haven't given the amount that the population grew in that decade to balance off the increase in STDs.

Sometimes the number of cases, (of anything) is so small that event if it increases by tenfold, the number is meaningless. The increase amounts to approximately .0000001% of the population. Even if the rate in TV is 100 times that it may be three or four people.

[justjim]

Originally Posted by dr winston o boogie jr

so what are the other 50,000 people if they are neither male or female?

dogs!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by justjim

dogs!

I LOVE it.

[Bruiser1]

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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

So what are the other 50,000 people if they are neither male or female?

[Down Sized]

Originally Posted by perrjojo

I suppose it could mean 10 single women to every 1 single man...who knows? Who cares?

You win the prize!!!
That is exactly correct. Ask any Single Baby boomer, especially the single women.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by The Mountaineer

I don't know who started the lie, but the official cenus is

24,069 men

27,373 women

That's 53.2% women, 46.8% men

Odds favor a guy having more than one gal, but hardly 10-1. So I guess the rest of the article must be as inaccurate, too.

Although STDs among 55+ in Central Florida, which includes more than The Villages, is up 50 to 70%, which is pretty stiff increase.

I thiught you had to be 100% stiff, to get STD.

Seriously, why did you get these statistics? Could you post the article, your refering to?

Seems suspicious to me!!

[Xavier]

The census does not count Snowbirds.

Xavier

[gpirate]

Originally Posted by The Mountaineer

I don't know who started the lie, but the official cenus is

24,069 men

27,373 women

That's 53.2% women, 46.8% men

Odds favor a guy having more than one gal, but hardly 10-1. So I guess the rest of the article must be as inaccurate, too.

Although STDs among 55+ in Central Florida, which includes more than The Villages, is up 50 to 70%, which is pretty stiff increase.

Is there only 51,500 living in TV? I thought I had read post saying over 100,000.

[Average Guy]

Originally Posted by Xavier

The census does not count Snowbirds.

Xavier

Correct. The decennial census counts people where they are living on April 1st.

The OP's statistics showing 53.2% women and 46.8% men includes both married and single people, so the use of those numbers to dispute the 10 to 1 ratio for dating is not appropriate.

[SantaClaus]

My impression, based on my observations during a half dozen visits, is that at the squares on a weekend night the gals might out-number the guys almost two to one: with the gals dancing and the guys sitting nursing drinks most of the time. I would expect that the squares are the "target-rich environments" for singles, but I could be making a bad assumption. Besides, the question as to how many from the census are single or married is a moot point, since any change in the percentage affects both sides equally (discounting any same-sex marriages) and therefore does not affect the ratio.