Researchers from the Geneva School of Business have developed a formula for increasing the chances of having a long-lasting and happy marriage by up to 20%. It's based on a variety of factors that tend to impact most marriages: age, cultural background, and intelligence. Ideally, the husband should be five years older than the wife and they should share the same cultural background, but the wife should be around 27% smarter than the husband, though a range of being 13% to 35% smarter is acceptable, according to these researchers.
More about marriages, relationships, and formulas:
- A pop cultural formula for determining whether it's appropriate to have an intimate relationship with someone is the half-your-age-plus-seven rule. For example, by this rule, a person who is 30 would be OK having a relationship with someone who's 22, but no younger.
- There's also a formula for finding the ideal age to propose. To calculate it, a person takes the oldest age that he or she would consider being married (A) and then subtracts the youngest age at which he or she would want to get married at (B) from it. He or she then multiplies the result by 0.368, and adds the result to B.
- The marriage rate of those 18 and older in the US decreased 5% between 2009 and 2010, going down to about 51%.