This AI Machine Can Tell You If Your Marriage Will Last

“A clear-cut example of the potential difficulties of considering all variables and their possible interactions concerns the ‘big five’ personality traits,” Professor Mencarini said. “To account for both partners’ traits (10 variables) and all their two-way interactions (25 variables), one would need to include 35 independent variables, which would be very problematic in a regression model.” ML tools are, on the contrary, capable of detecting complex patterns in relatively small datasets.