The magic figure turns out to be 37 percent. To have the highest chance of picking the very best suitor, you should date and reject the first 37 percent of your total group of lifetime suitors. (If youre into math, its actually 1/e, which comes out to 0.368, or 36.8 percent.)

How to solve the secretary problem?

The solution to the secretary problem suggests that the optimal dating strategy is to estimate the maximum number of people youre willing to date, N , and then date √N people and marry the next person who is better than all of those.