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That's not accurate; did you mean 13/10000?
Given that a couple were taken and a couple were incompatible for various other reasons, that I expect a higher proportion of guys to be taken as I get older, and that I will never be in such a high-density environment again... I really don't think 1 real prospect every couple of years, who may or may not work out as an actual relationship, is a high hit rate at all. Certainly not high enough that I would ever consider someone I was in a successful relationship with to be "easily replaceable."
Thanks, fixed.
I have a hard time seeing people as replaceable, much less easially. Even between two people who fit some abstracted ideal, one won't replace another. Leaving that aside though, I think that the difficulty is more in finding the people who fit that ideal than their actual existence.
xkcd: Dating Pools
(Though this graph from The Case For An Older Woman on OkTrends suggests otherwise -- but I'm not sure a 40-year-old single guy is as likely to be on OkCupid as a 20-year-old one is.)