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it's wednesday may 11th 20 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today.

How data can help us find happiness in romantic relationships, or at least tell us why we're dating all wrong.

Plus, it turns out, sleep deprivation can affect how we see other people. And a new website for finding

and reporting dinosaur sightings in your area and around the world. Here's some cool stuff for your

ride home. Well, I have a feeling that this is going to resonate with a lot of you listening.

Let's talk about using data to improve our dating game.

Seth Stevens-David-Vits has a new book out this week called Don't Trust Your Gut,

using data to get what you really want in life.

And there was an excerpt published in Wired recently focusing on how we might use data to find

our optimum life partner, which Stevens Davids lightly refers to as the most consequential

decision of a person's life. Now, historically, he points out, there hasn't actually been a lot

of data in so-called relationship science. There just haven't been too many huge studies.

But a few years ago, psychology researcher Samantha Joel combined the data of a lot of those

smaller studies to create a sample size of 11,196 couples. Although, like with most of these

studies, it focused only on heterosexual couples.

Most studies on LGBTQ plus folks are still of the,

wow, gay people really exist, huh? Variety.

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