A response to Joseph's idea of collective action in Valentines day!!

Sony sir once told us that collective action may not be the optimal solution in many cases..this idea looks one of those cases!!  

joseph sure found a creative way of bringing hesitant hearts together...!!!

but as they say the one whom u love and the one who loves u are rarely the same...!! and this poses a question mark to this whole concept!! let me explain... when one votes for a girl..the chances are that most of the boys would vote for the same girl as the prefernces ( u wud agree on this part) are more or less same!! even if we assume that the votes of guys would be equally divided, then a look at the skewed sex ratio of our batch would tell you that around three votes will be there for each girl..!! so the girls would have a problem of plenty!! now lets take the scenario of girls voting..assuming that they vote independently..there 20 odd votes would also be concentrated in no more than 20 guys.( assuming that each one of them votes and that too for different guys..a far fethched possibility really)....this again brings about a inequitable scenario for more than half of the guys!!! so, we can see that not more than 10 guys would have all the votes of the girls and the girls would have each 3 votes each...!!!

The problem here is that everybody would not be making rational or totally optimal choices because everybody would not be having complete information about others!! a typical case of Prisoner's Dilemma!!!! what does this mean for the average "joe" (pun unintended..really)!!! he would have a slim chance of hit..almost of 1(his choice)/50(no. of males) i.e 2%. If god forbids the vote of every guys comes out in the open ( which would happen eventually..u know how gossipy we are)..his chances of going after some other girl would also become nil as nobody would like to be a second fiddle!!! so should we lose heart?..i think the best possible way would be too uncomplicate things and just do it the old fashioned way!! a rose a senti card and some mush!! there would be a very high chance that the other competitors would not be able to muster up the required courage and the girl might make an uninformed choice before she becomes choosy by knowing who all are after her!!! another way would be tolive in the fantasy land where every class is a valentines day rehearsal( dreaming wide eyed). the reality sometimes is too stark to digest...one may live with a hope!! after all as Roy sir would put it albeit in a different context...that one cannot take chances with the matters of heart!!!

( posted it as a blog because it became too long to post as a comment)

i am looking forward to some responses!!!