Too many dates could lead to singlehood
Scientists have found that the more options you have for choosing a lover, the likelier you are to end up with no-one. In a new study British investigators looked at the strange dynamics of choice in speed-dating, a fashionable way for singles to meet.
Speed-daters race through a rota of one-on-one meetings, judging each person for suitability after a conversation of a few minutes that ends when a bell sounds. Assessing large numbers of candidates was not a problem in itself, the researchers found. In fact, many speed-daters found more potential partners when they were able to cast their net into a larger pool.
But this advantage only worked when the available candidates were all broadly similar. When candidates were too dissimilar, speed-daters became confused by many conflicting factors — and often failed to choose anyone. “There are models of human ‘rationality’ which posit that variety is a good thing,” said researcher Alison Lenton at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
It’s much easier when you are young! When you get older, just when you fall for someone, you meet another great guy who knocks himself out trying to get your attention because he knows that you are taken and he wants you too! And the pattern continues like a domino effect. Choosing a partner then becomes more and more difficult…
There are sooo many great guys out there due to the high divorce rate. It is like dating all over again in your 20’s only better bc these guys are mature and established! If you are beautiful, hot, young looking and single without kids, you have it made in this dating pool!