Valentine’s Day may have been invented by the greeting card companies but we think it’s been perfected by science. After all, what’s finding a mate if not basically an exercise in statistics? Attractiveness (like so many questions) can be answered by big data. And relationship happiness, well that’s nothing that a well-written formula can’t predict.
So put aside that mushy feel-good stuff and let’s get down to the real numbers of finding, and keeping, that special someone.
How Many Matches Are Out There?
It’s a question not unlike searching for alien life — and sometimes it feels just as hopeless. But in both instances, math to the rescue.
