The ‘secretary problem’ is so unrealistic it can’t inform our decisions

The ‘secretary problem’ is too bad a match for real life to usefully inform our decisions — so please stop citing it
Mrs Maisel waits to apply for a job in The Marvellous Mrs Maisel season 1 episode 5. But the secretary problem is such a poor approximation of real life that we should not see it as useful for guiding our actual decisions. But fixing one of these deviations at at time is far from sufficient to make the model good enough to apply out in the field, where people are actually going on dates and looking for jobs.

Source: medium.com