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Or, in another variation of the model, whose solution she refers to as the “twelve bonk rule,” there’s a result that says that if you simply want to ensure that your choice is better than 90% of the other choices available, simply ’sample’ the first 12 possibilities and pick the first person who is better after the first 12. This strategy gives you a 77% possibility of success.

Via this review of Mathematics and Sex.