Dr Paul Eastwick

You're going to be interacting with them again next week and then the week after that and then the week after that.

I mean, school and work are kind of obvious examples where we meet the same people over time and we get to know them.

We end up chatting with them, but we're not like selecting into it in the same way.

And, you know, online dating is very popular these days, but these other methods of meeting partners have been around for a very long time and they're still out there.

So what I'm usually inclined to say is that, look, for people who do not initially present as a nine or a 10,

Don't forget the other ways of meeting people.

I mean, I don't know, like join a sports league, intramural sports league, you know, take a couple of dance classes or a couple of cooking classes, things where you would get to meet people over time.

These things pull for that idiosyncrasy and gives more people opportunities.

And I think that's the thing that we've kind of lost a bit in our like, you know, online dating deluge.

That sounds high.

That's absolutely right.

And the only thing I'm adding to that is that... Sorry to make it more complicated because that's really perfect.

But you also have got a lot of Office minus twos.

You probably aren't talking about them, but they're out there too.

And...

I don't know if you're at that company for 10 years.

Now you're going to have some office plus threes and plus fours.

That is the spread will increase.

But that's exactly right.

And and I think that the problem with the modern dating environment is that.