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If she does not need to deal with someone might have a burner number, she is not going to deal with someone who might have a burner number. The end.

> Talk to people like human beings and you should be able to more reliably pick out the cheating bastards.

She does not need to talk to people who put themselves into a pile of "might have a burner number" because her deck would be more than full without those.

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It's really weird to redefine buying the phone OS used by 80% of the planet and 55% of the US uses as a willfully suspicious act. It's not about how many people you have time to date its picking a deliberately substandard algorithm when there are seventeen more readily at hand. It's about being bad at the game of life and then justifying bad strategy with bad logic. I would advise your friend to pick a better strategy.

They do extremely well utilizing this strategy.

Which doesn't at all prove that its a good strategy. A moderately attractive female that is reasonable well put together has sufficient options that she could probably concoct an absurd strategy filtering by hair color and astrology and still do extremely well. This wouldn't prove that astrology is a great way to date. It proves that if you start far enough ahead of the game you can run the race by hopping on one foot.

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