Science: What "Mr. Right" looks like (video)

Ryan Bort (esquire.com, Feb. 13, 2015); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Science has spoken, so who are we to question the published results of experts?

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This is what Mr. Right looks like, says science

Relationship advice culled from various scientific studies

To find him, he is best viewed from Dog

Ah, science! Where would we be without it? It's put a man on the Moon, it's cured polio, it's told us how many licks it actually takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.  But if there's anything in this world that is beyond the reach of cold, hard research, it's love. It works in mysterious ways, they say, and anyone who's even brushed up against it knows that the answer to how attraction governs our lives is not going to be found in a laboratory or through survey results.

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But in the process of shooting people into outer space and curing diseases, scientists have gotten pretty cocky. Everything in this world can be quantified, qualified, and disseminated by Science (with a capital S) via research studies that are then distilled into countless blog posts, and this includes what makes relationships work and what causes them to fall apart.

So don't worry, lovelorn denizens, a team of grad students is working round the clock to science-splain the facts of life to you.

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But the findings of most of these relationship studies usually don't seem to amount to much more than common sense, raising the question of why anyone is really even bothering.

Is finding that shorter men do more housework and get divorced less really going to influence whom a woman decides to marry? Of course not.

In the case of relationships, science is used as a way for people to somehow explain and rationalize their fraught romantic partnerships.

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Regardless of how exacting the scientific method was carried out during these experiments, you can only learn so much about love and compatibility from an institute who surveyed a few handfuls full of Northern European singles to reach to a conclusion that is being reported throughout American media as if it is an inexorable truth.

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Sites gladly publish these studies because it's convenient to do so and also because many readers have a weakness for insight into their relationships, or lack thereof. If easy answers don't exist, we'll find a way to conjure some up.

A typical headline -- published last year right before Valentine's Day, of course -- reads "In a Bad Relationship? New Study Says You Can Blame Your Parents."

Maybe your Mr. Right is all wrong.

Most researchers restrain themselves from being so bold as to say "BLAME THIS!" but in effect, this is what all these blog posts that result from all these studies are offering.
 

We all want something to blame other than ourselves. My boyfriend isn't doing the dishes? It's because he's tall! Why isn't my husband as good with the baby as I imagined? It's because he's clean-shaven! More
 

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(AllCheckeredOut, Summer 2014) Here is a video of me "hitting" on strangers to be proactive and get more numbers, more attention, and more quality dates from guys I'm actually interested in. Why always wait for them? How are you going to find "Mr. Right" that way?

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