The 37-percent rule says that when youre making a decision, youll have the highest chance of picking the very best option if you look at and reject the first 37 percent of your total group of options.

What is the 37 percent rule?

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.)

What is the most successful age to get married?

“The ideal age to get married, with the least likelihood of divorce in the first five years, is 28 to 32,” says Carrie Krawiec, a marriage and family therapist at Birmingham Maple Clinic in Troy, Michigan. “Called the Goldilocks theory, the idea is that people at this age are not too old and not too young.”

What is the optimal stopping rule?

The theory of optimal stopping is concerned with the problem of choosing a time to take a given action based on sequentially observed random variables in order to maximize an expected payoff or to minimize an expected cost.

What is the optimal stopping rule for searching for a job?

One reason why the secretary problem has received so much attention is that the optimal policy for the problem (the stopping rule) is simple and selects the single best candidate about 37% of the time, irrespective of whether there are 100 or 100 million applicants.

What is the stopping rule in statistics?

Stopping rules are what make most frequentist (a.k.a. classical) statistical tests valid. Unsurprisingly, they tell you when to stop an experiment, and equally unsurprising, they are rules that must be followed in order to get statistically valid experiments from statistical tests that depend on them.