Originally posted by Ashley Chuckles
...you do get much betta success just chattin with women and closin them before gettin back to them later in the week... I read somewhere they reckon that's like 2 in 10
So if you're prepared to do without the instant **** then put your money away, lol...
Point well stated AC, and I heartily commend you for it.
One other interesting insight into this type of an experiment. Jay Leno told one of his staffers once to just randomly hand people a hundred dollar bill, for absolutely no reason other than to see how long a certain ammount of money would last and video tape the results. I think it was 500 dollars.
It took the staffer literally hours. He didn't say anything other than 'here', and put the hundred dollar bill into the person's hand. I learned a lot about this when I was a door-to-door salesman oh so long ago and was assigned to hand out free stuff to everyone I saw in order to support a client. Even when I was trying to give people coupons for free burgers and other items they were going to consume anyway, the didn't know me and didn't trust the fact that I came to their door to give it to them.
On the other hand when you're in a comfortable atmosphere devoted to a specific end, (bars or libraries for instance) a few other factors apply. Even if they don't know you, you both already have some commonality in your reason for being there. Then, the simple fact that you're meeting through an institutionary setting lends a certain degree of comfort tends to take some of the caution out of meeting strangers. I see a lot of this working in a library, and being spoken to in ways that most people would never speak to a stranger. (Whether arguing over a fine, or asking for help finding or carrying a lot of books)
This disparity might explain the outcome of your experiment. Next time you try one, try to factor in the unseen aspects of human behavior, and you might find your results will vary greatly.
-CyranoDeBergerac