So… there is no chance that you will be married if/when you die. There is also no chance that you will be single if/when you die. (Assuming that you will only ‘die’ once). There are many things that happen one or fewer times per human lifetime; the expected chance of them happening is less than once per human lifetime.
Most people stop attempting to acquire additional spouses after they find a good one, so the actual rate of success isn’t reflective of the number of successes someone could statistically expect if they worked at it continuously for 100 years.
Many people marry more than once in their lifetime; I’m not sure what the average is offhand- but I didn’t reference marriages, I measured conditions at a specified point in lifespan.
“Less than one expected payoff per human lifetime” seems like a good threshold.
So… there is no chance that you will be married if/when you die. There is also no chance that you will be single if/when you die. (Assuming that you will only ‘die’ once). There are many things that happen one or fewer times per human lifetime; the expected chance of them happening is less than once per human lifetime.
Most people stop attempting to acquire additional spouses after they find a good one, so the actual rate of success isn’t reflective of the number of successes someone could statistically expect if they worked at it continuously for 100 years.
Many people marry more than once in their lifetime; I’m not sure what the average is offhand- but I didn’t reference marriages, I measured conditions at a specified point in lifespan.
Of course, this is LW; local notions of how long a human lifetime is differ by many orders of magnitude.