Your rudeness is really inexcusable. That two times now that you have tried to call me stupid. I’d take AYC over DY anyday. I am not using your lack of understanding as an excuse to call you stupid,- and your lack of understanding certainly doesn’t make me stupid, so you really have no occasion to do so. All in all, I think you are either taking this too personally, or you are unwilling to any thought to this matter, or both.
In any case, I’ll repeat myself so you have another chance to digest or ignore my point. The mere fact that multiplying a number by another number makes a larger number does not speak to the relevance of the calculation to the real life situation. In plain language, until you prove that the shidduch pool increasing by 3.5 percent every year is a reasonable assumption, it is not a reasonable assumption. I could just as easily say the growth is 1%. I stress the word prove, because that is what is lacking – anecdotal evidence exists for and against the argument, but no proof. I am sorry for you if you are willing to accept postulation and guesswork in place of scientific proof.
To your last point, I too will defer to the Gedolei Hador when it comes to manipulation and its appropriateness – when they are not deliberately misled into making tbeir decision. In this case. I am certain they would retract if they had real facts.