{"id":2809,"date":"2009-07-27T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T04:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2014-06-15T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T08:55:32","slug":"math-and-the-dating-game-the-carol-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/math-and-the-dating-game-the-carol-syndrome-2809","title":{"rendered":"Math and the dating game - The Carol Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many gorgeous people have an unsatisfactory love life. Maybe they are <i>too<\/i> attractive and scare people away?<\/p>\n<p>Here's an interesting analysis of the probabilities involved when super-hunks cannot find a mate: <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.maths.org\/content\/carol-syndrome\">The Carol Syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[This article by Jose-Manuel Rey is the winner in the general public category of <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.maths.org\/content\/\">Plus magazine<\/a>'s new writers award 2009.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probability explains that curse of the super-beautiful - it's hard to find a mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}