[tritri]

It's good that they finally mentioned it at the end - this is a flavor of the optimal stopping problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping). This is a cute application of that strategy, the problem is that mathematics has very little to do with actual relationships, as much so as the assumptions game theory makes about actual relationships (http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/13/whats-wrong-with-game-th...). Whats more important than trying to play your luck in a relationship is: working through the grit of an actual relationship.

In reality - if you don't put in the actual work any single relationship takes, then none of them will work out, it doesn't matter how large your "sample size" is.