Is the Israeli expert's cupid drunk, or is the mismatch of first-rate wedding pairings a format failure? • We looked at the program's chances of success in seven countries and returned with lots of ratings and a little love

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In the opening episode of Season 3 of "Wedding at First Sight," the grooms and brides-in-law were featured in a montage fountain of scientific experimentation aimed at successfully perfecting the perfect pairings. Among the various tests, the ultimate spouse's classrooms were built, symmetry tests, and of course, a scent test, so that the spouses could aspire for a full body of passionate male pheromones, as anyone who travels in public transport in July knows no aphrodisiac is stronger than raw sweat. . These experiments, besides the unenviable goal of pairing single-contact couples, have another sub-goal and are comparable to a scientific justification program. If the scientific community in the world were only demonstrating a thousand of the seriousness of the experts at first-hand wedding, not only was there a vaccine for Corona, it would also have a mint flavor and give the vaccines brilliant, animal-friendly hair.

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Since the program insists on wrapping itself in scientific cover, we also decided to examine the format of scientific tools and to see how successful the program is with the goal it set for itself. Along the way, we also wanted to answer the question of whether the problem is in format, or whether we Israelis are more difficult to match than other nations.

As is well known, in the Israeli version of the program to date, only one pair of the 12 couples who participated in the first two seasons of the program together remains, which means that the chances of the "experts" are only about 8%. One can assume that their Cupid simply did not succeed, but in order to understand the proportionality of this figure one must look at the accuracy of the program in other countries.

To the delight of Danny Friedlander, Dr. Yael Doron and Dr. Liat Yakir, the good news is that there are "experts" in the different versions of the program in the world whose success rates are similar and even lower. In Australia, for example, the program is considered a crazy success story and no less than 60 couples got married over seven seasons, but only five couples chose to remain in the relationship to date, placing Australians on eight percent chance of success, just as in the Israeli version. Far behind in terms of chances of success, the Spaniards, who have met 22 seniors and seniors to date, have not survived a couple.

If we suspect that the reason for the lack of success lies in the temperamental nature of the Spaniards, it is time to mention that even in the British after four seasons, no couple has been able to maintain his relationship to this day. For French, the success rate is about 14 percent, nevertheless a nation that knows a thing or two about romance, but apart from the successes they also managed to complicate the format and no less than four participants paired through the program, chose a pair of exchanges and established a relationship with a contestant or contestant attached to the participant Other.

On the other side of the barricade and the ocean is the American version of the program and there experts reserve a place in paradise with no less than nine couples who stayed together out of 33 couples who have participated so far. That is, more than 27 percent of success, which is three times the accuracy percentage in Israel. Not far away, Belgian Americans are bleeding, with almost one in four couples remaining in the relationship even after the program ended.

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From these rather bleak data, two conclusions can be drawn. First of all, for first-time wedding participants in Israel, the chances of getting a campaign or item in the gossip sections are much higher than finding true love, but the same is true for married people in Spain, the United Kingdom or Australia. Also, 27 percent of success anyway is the maximum you can expect from this matchmaking program, which means that the success of a "first-hand wedding" is primarily measured by grating, rather than love. Ask the Spaniards.