Hello there! I got something interesting to share today. While I was crawling through the web, searching for any fun articles, I came over this news in CNET about using math in finding a lifetime partner. It caught my attention really. I just wonder if I could use this calculation for my own partner finding adventure.(!grinning!)
Well anyway, I think this only works if you have plenty to choose from which makes this formula more usable. Given 100 choices, mathematicians believed that you have to disregard half and choose the best between the remaining half. Still too many don't you think? This half-half method gives you 25 percent of picking the best candidate.
But them came John Gilbert and Frederick Mosteller of Harvard University. Presenting a new method in choosing the best partner. The method involves division. Simple divide 100 by e (the base of natural algorithms, which is around 2.72), getting 37 as a result. Which gives you 37 percent chance of picking the best candidate. So out of 100, pick 37, drop the rest, and out of the 37 choose the next best one.
The good thing about this formula is that you can apply it in any number. It doesn't have to be a hundred. Even if you have 10 or 20 or perhaps 30 candidates, this will work.
Nice huh? A formula for choosing a partner. However it is still best if you choose by means of using your heart. This calculation might help but still it's your happiness that counts. Choose the best that will make you happy.
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