Applying Game Theory to Win a Spouse
*click on title to read the article*
This is just about finding the best way to pick your significant other, given that you only have a limited number of choices (you can’t meet everyone on earth) and a limited amount of time (you don’t live forever).
The author explains that the best way to do it is to meet lots of people, rank them according to preference, then date them in descending order, moving from one person to the next, then repeating the process until you meet another person to add to your “pool”. It’s like piling food on your plate on a buffet: picking each dish, nibbling on them in turn, going back to the buffet table to get some more and doing it all over again.*
The problem with this is that you explicitly limit the amount of time you spend with each person (in the buffet analogy, you only have so much stomach space for all that food) by dating “in turn”. In addition, by limiting the time spent with each relationship, it also becomes more probable that you wouldn’t have enough knowledge about person to even decide if she is “The One”. It’s also not logical to assume that you could “go back” to the same person over and over and expect that she would receive you with open arms every time.
I’ll rather wait for “the one” no matter how long it takes.
*Really, I can’t seem to develop a proper analogy for this one. My apologies for those that I might offend.*
