A DATE on Saint Valentine’s Day will be great if you have one. But even if you don’t, you will not be alone. Perhaps you will even be in an “exalted” company. With all their number-crunching statistics, medical scientists find it difficult to form relationships. A scientist himself, D. J. Williams wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (2004): “It’s undoubtedly true that a statistically significant proportion of medical science nerds have difficulty forming intimate relationships.” “Many of us are more comfortable pursuing intimate relationship with our computers than with a fellow human being. We busily collect and analyze complex data for mind-numbing research reports and journal articles, but can’t seem to figure out the fundamentals of love,” he added. The reason apparently for this disconnect with love or romance is that their world revolves on the quantitative. And the language of love is, by nature, qualitative. So Williams ventured to study this phenomenon though
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