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What’s The Perfect Age To Get Married? It Might Be Younger Than You Think

Belleville, ON, Canada / Mix 97
Justin Anderson
Jul 26, 2021 | 6:39 PM


What is the best age to get married? It might be younger than you’d expect!

According to Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian in their book, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, the best age to get married is 26 year old.

Basically this theory says that when completing a task, the perfect point to make a decision in it is when you’re 37% done with it.

So when it comes to finding your person, if the average person is looking between 18-40 years old, then 26 is the ideal age to marry because you’re 37% of the way through the 18-40 age range.

Is this a perfect theory?

According to University of Utah sociologist Nicholas H. Wolfinger, that the best age to get married in order to avoid divorce was 28-32. (according this theory, that would be more of a 45% range).