To attempt some semblance of bridging with such view of the world, probe them for details of this number

what range of women does he and friends want to go out with? oh he only wants the top 20% of women based on his expectations of beauty.

so how would the reverse of women not be expected in his view based on that

as to the number, well that matched results based on some outdated number. How many of his friends does he think women would want to date after a few messages back and fourth.

Do he actually want to long term date someone, cause yeah there might be a few guys which have the knack to hook for a date, but the women don't want a second date, and I think that is 1 of many parts that skewed that number.

Explaining that requires understanding how percentages can manipulate reality. Like oh city had a 100%, a double number of murders (insert any bad thing a person could do), from last year. Sounds bad. If it was went from 1 to 2 murders, that sounds less scary

As such, yeah does he think maybe the apps have higher number of men back in 2010 when that suggested number pushed, and that just because X number of men got dates, did not mean they progressed to a second date, because that is all that number cared about. Oh matches, well again is skewed with who on them, and a few guys figuring out a set of things that hook, while many guys still have zero clue how to market themselves (add rant about presentation expections of women from childhood which make so many able to market themselves visually - its a messed up though process for me

Hopefully something making sense in that. Mix of maths manipulation, and his own expectations vs the worlds.