The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

by Jennifer E. Smith

“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline.

“No one is useless in this world,” it reads, “who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”

“People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”

“Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within a twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again?”