Are you single? Lonely? Feel like you’ll never find love?
Well, don’t worry! Countdown’s very own maths maven Rachel Riley is on hand to tell us that finding love is… really bloody hard, apparently.
In a promotional video for dating website eHarmony, Rachel does some fancy sums and comes to the conclusion that if you exclude people based on factors like age and gender, you end up with a 1 in 562 chance of finding love. Riley contextualises this by saying you’ve got a 1 in 67 chance of having twins and a 1 in 55 chance of becoming a millionaire. So… unlikely, then.
As for what you can do to ameliorate these particularly catastrophic prospects, well, Riley has some tips, in what must be the first time that being very good at maths has ever actually helped anyone find love. The first is to get to know your work colleagues, then get to know their friends… The second tip is to go to the gym regularly.
The third tip, pretty unsurprisingly, is to sign up for dating website eHarmony (the video is an ad for eHarmony).
While 1 in 562 sounds pretty bad, it could be worse. All you’d really have to do is go on a first date with a different person every day for almost two years and you’d probably be sorted by then. So… thanks Rachel! Kind of.
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