Relationship Science

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    Here’s why you should get married at 26 (according to math)

    When it comes to choosing “the one” mathematicians refer to the problem as optimal stopping, basically you gotta date and reject the first 37 per cent of the expected total of your lifetime of partners in order to have the greatest shot at choosing the best one. Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, co-authors of “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions,” suggest that the most optimal decisions you can make are made after screening 37 per cent of your options. “At the 37 pe