“Super daters” have positive effect on others’ lives

New research by an Oxford graduate suggests that ’super daters’ ‚Äî people who have a large number of short relationships ‚Äî have a good effect on other people’s relationships, because they break up weak couples and force their ‘victims’ to find better relationships.

He sees a similarity between the probability of the nucleus of an atom decaying and that of a couple breaking up.

To model the phenomenon, he wrote a computer program which placed “software singles”, people seeking partners, in an imaginary social network.

Each single had a set of interests, which they also looked for in potential partners.

The research suggested that multiple daters, those who form many relationships, were less effective at finding the right partner than those who remained in one place and let others come to them.

“If you have a complex network and you stay in one site you see more traffic coming through,” he said. “It’s a denser network, so there are more possible matches.”

It’s an interesting piece of research, though perhaps a little too reliant on science. It also uses questionable morals - that of people finding healthier relationships because of being broken up by ’super daters’.

Read the full article: Physics enlisted to help singles