Showing posts with label Season 1 Episode 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Season 1 Episode 3. Show all posts

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Season 1, Episode 3 Probabilities - with blog assistance

MTV is revealing perfect matches for Are You The One? on their blog. This post will keep track of known combinations given the information on the blog.

See the original Episode 3 post if you don't want to be spoiled by the MTV blog.

Season 1, Episode 3 Probabilities

The contestants narrowed it down to 5,773 possible combinations remaining after Episode 2. Do they know that they've eliminated 99.8% of the possible combinations?

Truth Booth

John and Simone, who had about a 20% chance of being a match by virtue of their Episode 1 pairing, were not in fact a match. This cuts the number of possible combinations down to 4,617. That frees up Jacy to move in on John - convenient, since they're the most likely couple on the board to be a perfect match. The remaining odds (red = eliminated, yellow = twice as likely as randomly guessing, green = most likely pairing):

AdamChris SChris TDillanDreEthanJoeyJohnRyanWesley
Amber5.3%3.9%5.1%4.6%5.0%38.2%5.1%6.2%21.5%5.1%
Ashleigh4.9%20.9%5.1%5.0%37.1%5.2%5.0%6.8%5.1%5.0%
Brittany21.4%3.9%5.4%5.1%5.0%5.4%37.6%6.3%4.9%5.0%
Coleysia5.1%3.9%5.5%21.5%5.1%5.4%4.9%6.4%5.2%37.0%
Jacy3.9%2.9%4.0%3.9%20.9%4.0%3.9%48.9%3.9%3.9%
Jessica4.8%4.0%25.0%38.2%5.2%X5.4%6.6%5.4%5.3%
Kayla5.1%3.9%5.0%5.1%5.0%5.3%5.0%6.3%37.0%22.3%
Paige5.0%3.9%38.4%5.3%4.9%4.8%21.4%6.1%5.1%5.1%
Shanley38.4%4.0%X5.1%5.1%25.0%5.4%6.5%5.5%5.0%
Simone6.1%48.9%6.5%6.2%6.8%6.6%6.3%X6.4%6.3%


Matchup Ceremony

The men got to go first again, and a few of them are feeling good about what happened in the previous episode.
  • Dillan - Coleysia (repeat from episode 1)
  • John - Jessica
  • Ryan - Kayla (repeat from episode 2)
  • Ethan - Amber (repeat from episode 2)
  • Dre - Ashleigh (repeat from episode 2)
  • Chris T - Simone
  • Adam - Brittany (repeat from episode 1)
  • Chris S - Paige
  • Joey - Shanley
  • Wesley - Jacy
Unfortunately, they were by and large incorrect, as only 2 of 10 pairings were correct. The only outcome that would have eliminated fewer possible combinations was 1 of 10. 0 of 10 here would have provided significant additional information on what had happened in previous episodes. Instead, the group is left with 1,324 possible combinations, and these possibilities:

AdamChris SChris TDillanDreEthanJoeyJohnRyanWesley
Amber4.8%4.8%4.9%4.1%4.5%44.0%6.0%5.7%14.3%7.0%
Ashleigh3.7%19.6%5.3%4.4%41.1%3.7%5.4%6.4%4.9%5.5%
Brittany25.3%4.2%5.0%6.0%4.2%5.4%33.4%6.2%4.8%5.6%
Coleysia5.8%4.5%4.7%25.7%4.2%4.5%5.4%5.4%4.7%35.2%
Jacy3.9%3.0%3.2%4.6%19.4%4.4%3.9%51.4%4.3%1.9%
Jessica4.6%4.2%26.7%32.1%6.0%X6.1%6.6%6.6%7.0%
Kayla4.6%4.1%5.0%4.4%3.5%4.3%6.0%6.3%41.4%20.5%
Paige4.9%3.5%37.6%5.4%4.8%4.0%24.8%5.4%4.7%4.9%
Shanley36.0%4.3%X6.3%6.2%23.6%2.9%6.7%7.6%6.3%
Simone6.3%47.8%7.6%7.2%6.2%6.0%6.1%X6.7%6.0%

Strategy will be discussed in a future post.