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The Marriage Pact was designed to assist university students find their“backup plan that is perfect.”
Keep in mind the Friends episode where Rachel makes Ross guarantee her that if neither of those are hitched by the time they’re 40, they’ll relax and marry one another? That’s exactly exactly what McGregor and Sterling-Angus had been after — a kind of intimate safety net that prioritized stability over initial attraction. And even though “marriage pacts” have probably for ages been informally invoked, they’d never ever been run on an algorithm.
What began as Sterling-Angus and McGregor’s small course task quickly became a viral sensation on campus. They’ve run the test 2 yrs in a line, and just last year, 7,600 pupils participated: 4,600 at Stanford, or simply just over half the undergraduate populace, and 3,000 at Oxford, that the creators decided as a moment location because Sterling-Angus had examined abroad here. (more…)
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