DO YOU AGREE? RESEARCH SHOWS THIS IS THE BEST AGE TO GET MARRIED IF YOU DON’T WANT TO GET DIVORCED.

If you have entered your 20s and are thinking about your future, you should consider the 37% Rule.

Journalist Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, co-authors of “Algorithms to Libe By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions,” say that this mathematical rule will help you. helps save time looking for a partner.

The 37% Rule basically says that when you have to make decisions between a large number of options in a very short time, for example, choosing candidates for a job, looking for a new apartment, or a partner, the best time to make a decision is when you have reviewed 37% of the options.

At that point in the selection process, you have enough information to make an informed decision, but you haven’t wasted too much time searching for more options than necessary. 37% is the perfect time to make the right decision.

An experiment proved this theory in 1960 and it was known in “The Secretariat Problem.” In the hypothetical case that you had only one possibility to choose a secretary. That you couldn’t turn her down and then go back and hire her (because she already had another job). The question is: how long should you search to make sure you pick the right one?

If you interview only 3 candidates, the author explains, the best bet is to make a decision based on the potential of the second candidate. If it’s better than the first one, you should hire her. If not better, you should wait. If you have 5 candidates, you must wait until the third to start judging.

So if you are looking for love between the ages of 18 and 40, the optimal age to seriously consider your future husband or wife is when you turn 26 (37% of that 22-year period). Before that, you’ve probably missed a lot of good couples. After that, many of the good options may start to be unavailable, thus decreasing the chances of finding a good match.

In mathematical parlance, looking for a suitable match is known as the “optimal stop problem.” Among 1,000 possibilities, Christian and Griffiths explain that, the stop would be at 36.81%. The greater the number of options, the closer to 37% we will find ourselves.

In addition, investigating at what age marriages are most successful and lasting, it coincides with 26 years.

In July 2015, University of Utah sociologist Nicholas H. Wolfinger discovered that the best age to marry to avoid divorce is between 28 and 32 years old. But the range is not entirely accurate. The 28 years would be 45%, but couples usually decide that they are going to marry one or two years after carrying it out. Wolfinger’s analysis also revealed that couples’ chances of breaking up increase by 5% for every year they exceed 32.

The 37% Rule is not exact. Despite following mathematical logic, it assumes that 26-year-olds know exactly what they are looking for in a partner, but it does not take into account that the search for our partner does not have to be limited between 18 and 40 years.

What the 37% Rule tells us is that 26 is the ideal age, the point at which we must stop and stop jumping around aimlessly.

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