You can apply this to find your best potential life partner.
Suppose you expect to meet and evaluate 10 partners over the next 10 years, the limit you set yourself to get married.
Say you date each of them for 1 year.
- You should date and reject the first 3.7 partners.
- After these 3.7, you select the next partner who is better than all the previous 3.7.
This strategy maximizes the probability of choosing the best partner out of the total you will meet. Statistically, it gives you a roughly 37% chance of ending up with the best partner.
Nice information. But it's useless for me as I have already been married and I got the best life partner for me.
1/e is approximately 37 percent
Between 3 or 4 dates for your 10 person example
The marriage or secretary problem
Haha! This one's is exclusively for singles. @IamSINGLE would love it!!