Marshall makes the charts of Barney having a success rate of 1.2%, but actually it's wrong!
Marshall counts 16 years of sexual activity, however, Barney was 31 at the time according to the show (Ted and Barney had their birthdays the year before that as per The Goat episode).
Also, according to The Yips episode, Barney lost his virginity to Rhonda at the age of 23, so he's had 8 years of sexual activity, not 16.
Also, Barney may hit on 20 girls a week, but he can only theoretically take home only one every night (as per The Belt episode threesomes were extremely rare for them), so the baseline per year has to be 365, not 1040 girls.
8 yrs x 365 + 2 (leap year days)= 2922 199 out of them is 6.8%.
So Barney is closing close to 7% success rate as opposed to a little over 1% as shown. 😸
Marshall counts 16 years of sexual activity, however, Barney was 31 at the time according to the show (Ted and Barney had their birthdays the year before that as per The Goat episode).
Also, according to The Yips episode, Barney lost his virginity to Rhonda at the age of 23, so he's had 8 years of sexual activity, not 16.
Also, Barney may hit on 20 girls a week, but he can only theoretically take home only one every night (as per The Belt episode threesomes were extremely rare for them), so the baseline per year has to be 365, not 1040 girls.
8 yrs x 365 + 2 (leap year days)= 2922 199 out of them is 6.8%.
So Barney is closing close to 7% success rate as opposed to a little over 1% as shown. 😸