Confidence Interval A fresh spin on "opposites attract" . A statistics PhD who believes in clean data and reversible decisions has finally built an app that optimizes the only thing numbers shouldn't touch: love. Lila Sethi's "Plus-One" doesn't rank people-it engineers exits, consent, and second chances. Then the model hits its wildest outlier: Micah Cole, the firefighter-turned-influencer whose quiet heroics and ugly-light PSAs are suddenly everywhere... and whom the algorithm keeps stubbornly matching back to her. As a charity gala goes viral, rivals dangle certainty like confetti, and a doctored "leaderboard" tries to turn consent into a score, Lila and Micah have to choose boring on purpose over spectacle: paper-door signs instead of kiss cams, quiet wins over grand reveals, practice over destiny. When a citywide shelter night forces the pair to turn their theory into logistics-pairing neighbors, guarding boundaries, and teaching "no thanks" like a love language-Lila learns that some variables you measure, and some you marry. Smart, funny, and civic-hearted, Confidence Interval is a STEM rom-com where the grand gesture is a room that keeps everyone safe-and a kiss that arrives with conditions, aftercare, and yes that can always change its mind.