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Game theory explains dinner-party dates.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the available, sociable, and genuinely attractive man is a character highly in demand in social settings....

Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment It is a truth universally acknowledged that the available, sociable, and genuinely attractive man is a character highly in demand in social settings. Dinner hosts are always looking for the man who fits all the criteria. When they don’t find him (often), they throw up their hands and settle for the sociable but unattractive, the attractive but unsociable, and, as a last resort, for the merely available. The shortage of appealing men is a century-plus-old commonplace of the society melodrama. The shortage—or—more exactly, the perceptio

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