Paul Eastwick

Now, I think the average person probably overestimates this.

the extent to which we agree about whether, for example, somebody's hot or not.

So let's say that you and I, like we had this guy in front of us and we had to make a simple hot or not judgment about this guy.

But the odds that we're going to agree

That's about 65%.

That's higher than 50-50.

It's higher than random chance, but it's far from perfect.

And what that means is that, look, there's some amount of room there for idiosyncrasy.

You think some people are hot, and I don't think they're especially hot.

Leaving room for individual taste, that's kind of step one in this realization that the market metaphor only gets us so far.

Look, it's for me, but this is not for everybody.

And that's the beauty of the thing.

Yeah, so I want to take us back as best we can estimate what it was like when you were looking for a partner, I don't know, 50,000, 150,000, half a million years ago.

Keep going.

OK, so you probably lived in a group of about 50 people.

There might be a couple other groups nearby that you'd interface with.

But so we're talking like 150 people.

That's your social universe.

And now how many of those folks are roughly your age?

How many are unpartnered already?