The author reflects on their first experience watching 'Married at First Sight,' noting that the show is labeled as a social experiment despite its long-running history. Intrigued by this characterization, the author engages in data analysis using information from Wikipedia to answer specific questions about the success of couples from recent seasons. They aim to determine relationship longevity, exploring how many couples remain together at various stages—noting a methodological approach to understanding the show's impact beyond just entertainment value, which highlights its unique fusion of reality television and social science.
From the narrator to the experts who counsel the hapless couples on their relationship dramas, the entire show seems to be calling the experience a social experiment for which we don't know the outcome.
There's plenty of data there to analyse and see what the experiment shows. I collected the data from the Mafs Wikipedia pages which are wonderfully comprehensive.
I asked three main questions: How many couples stay together until the end of filming? How many couples stay together after filming is completed? How many couples are still together and is it fewer than we'd expect?
I considered staying together after filming as at least one year of relationship post-show, because it was hard to figure out exactly when people broke up in the months after filming completed.
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