Keltham quizzically observes his actual level of internal surprise and maybe even slight dismay at male candidates being included, neither of which he would've expected himself to feel.  Probably worth a pretty serious chunk of probability mass out of Conspiracy, though, maybe a factor of 2 or 3 diminishment... should've thought to predict that in advance, but the amount of surprise he's feeling would seem to indicate that he wasn't putting a lot of probability mass on male candidates being included.

Moving on from that!

Two of the male candidates and three of the female candidates look too good to pass up.  One of the female candidates looks like a why-would-they-include-this case.

The remaining three men and three women seem to be in basically the same bin so far as Keltham's ability to tell who would work out.  Given that Keltham has a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with Chelish girls and less such demonstrated ability to interact with any boys his age, he feels a certain impulse to take the three female candidates in this round, and let more male candidates wait pending seeing what happens with the first two?

...Is that blatant rationalization?

Possibly?  He'd kind of expect to end up saturated on romantic options either way?  It's just that Keltham doesn't feel like he actually has much of a basis on which to make more decisions here aside from noticing his own nervousness about what young-adult masculine gendertropes are like around here.

Keltham has arrived at his opinions; what does Carissa think about these dozen?

Keltham quizzically observes his actual level of internal surprise and maybe even slight dismay at male candidates being included, neither of which he would've expected himself to feel.  Probably worth a pretty serious chunk of probability mass out of Conspiracy... should've thought to predict that in advance, but the amount of surprise he's feeling would seem to indicate that he wasn't putting a lot of probability mass on male candidates being included.

Well, makes sense though, Ordinary was thinking something like 'there's an alien, we don't know his gendertrope or how well he can do research with a bunch of boys his age, also we want him to feel very welcome in Cheliax, also we want all his genes, also we may not have a lot of time here, let's send him 12 girls from a wizard academy'.  And then now they're like 'well he's doing pretty okay and we ran out of great female candidates so send him some males'.  Conspiracy, you would think more on priors, would have some Dark Plan that looked something like 'lull Keltham with a harem' and then not want to modify that plan based on how things went on Project Lawful so far.  Factor of 2?  Factor of 3?  Call it 2.5 maybe.  And don't neglect to note that remaining probability mass in Conspiracy is narrowing more towards 'the Conspiracy is improvising and modifying their plans as they go'.

Moving on from that!

Two of the male candidates and three of the female candidates look too good to pass up.  One of the female candidates looks like a why-would-they-include-this case.

The remaining three men and three women seem to be in basically the same bin so far as Keltham's ability to tell who would work out.  Given that Keltham has a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with Chelish girls and less such demonstrated ability to interact with any boys his age, he feels a certain impulse to take the three female candidates in this round, and let more male candidates wait pending seeing what happens with the first two?

...Is that blatant rationalization?

Possibly?  He'd kind of expect to end up saturated on romantic options either way?  It's just that Keltham doesn't feel like he actually has much of a basis on which to make more decisions here aside from noticing his own nervousness about what young-adult masculine gendertropes are like around here.

Keltham has arrived at his opinions; what does Carissa think about these dozen?

Keltham quizzically observes his actual level of internal surprise and maybe even slight dismay at male candidates being included, neither of which he would've expected himself to feel.  Probably worth a pretty serious chunk of probability mass out of Conspiracy... should've thought to predict that in advance, but the amount of surprise he's feeling would seem to indicate that he wasn't putting a lot of probability mass on male candidates being included.

Well, makes sense though, Ordinary was thinking something like 'there's an alien, we don't know his gendertrope or how well he can do research with a bunch of boys his age, also we want him to feel very welcome in Cheliax, also we want all his genes, also we may not have a lot of time here, let's send him 11 girls from a wizard academy'.  And then now they're like 'well he's doing pretty okay and we ran out of great female candidates so send him some males'.  Conspiracy, you would think more on priors, would have some Dark Plan that looked something like 'lull Keltham with a harem' and then not want to modify that plan based on how things went on Project Lawful so far.  Factor of 2?  Factor of 3?  Call it 2.5 maybe.  And don't neglect to note that remaining probability mass in Conspiracy is narrowing more towards 'the Conspiracy is improvising and modifying their plans as they go'.

Moving on from that!

Two of the male candidates and three of the female candidates look too good to pass up.  One of the female candidates looks like a why-would-they-include-this case.

The remaining three men and three women seem to be in basically the same bin so far as Keltham's ability to tell who would work out.  Given that Keltham has a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with Chelish girls and less such demonstrated ability to interact with any boys his age, he feels a certain impulse to take the three female candidates in this round, and let more male candidates wait pending seeing what happens with the first two?

...Is that blatant rationalization?

Possibly?  He'd kind of expect to end up saturated on romantic options either way?  It's just that Keltham doesn't feel like he actually has much of a basis on which to make more decisions here aside from noticing his own nervousness about what young-adult masculine gendertropes are like around here.

Keltham has arrived at his opinions; what does Carissa think about these dozen?