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Exactly my thoughts. Assortative mating has been happening all along, equality between the sexes is the only thing that has changed here. Back then even if you

by dikdik 11y ago

Exactly my thoughts. Assortative mating has been happening all along, equality between the sexes is the only thing that has changed here. Back then even if you didn't get married young, most men did not have options to marry a female doctor, banker, lawyer, etc. You would meet a nice secretary at work and probably use similar criteria to today (pretty, compatible personality wise, smart). In 2015 that smart secretary is a smart doctor, none of this is surprising.

rdlecler1 11y ago
It's been happening be geographic relocation and tools like online dating profiles make it easier. Most of my single Ivy friends filter on Ivy + Advanced Degree. Previously might have try to pick the best from a pool of 20, now you can increase the pool by a couple orders of magnitude. That will have a qualitative effect.
- dogma1138 11y ago
  I actually wonder how many people use online dating sites, and even then this is quite natural. You are most likely to find a compatible partner from a group of people similar to you, having a partner with a similar level of intelligence, interests, and world views is quite important as marriage is no longer seen as some right of passage and a baby factory. Yes if you use some specific dating site for ivy league alumni you are lowering your selection pool but it's not that different from that service that matches 11 out of 10 on the hotness scale super models with rich men. If you use a normal dating site the overall selection you'll get will be quite more substantial than 20 even if you filter the heck out of it I'll assume, but still It will most likely not match a maid with a banker. But there is nothing that stops it from matching a school teacher, a doctor that spent his or her life volunteering in Africa instead of getting rich in an LA private practice or a summa cum laude lawyer that decided to become a public defender instead of getting the likes of BP out of trouble. Rich people tend to marry other rich people, attractive people tend to marry other attractive people, people in general tend to marry people who resemble them. Should we also run a piece about how attractive successful men marrying attractive successful women is now considered sexist?

by dikdik 11y ago

rdlecler1 11y ago

It's been happening be geographic relocation and tools like online dating profiles make it easier. Most of my single Ivy friends filter on Ivy + Advanced Degree. Previously might have try to pick the best from a pool of 20, now you can increase the pool by a couple orders of magnitude. That will have a qualitative effect.

dogma1138 11y ago
I actually wonder how many people use online dating sites, and even then this is quite natural. You are most likely to find a compatible partner from a group of people similar to you, having a partner with a similar level of intelligence, interests, and world views is quite important as marriage is no longer seen as some right of passage and a baby factory. Yes if you use some specific dating site for ivy league alumni you are lowering your selection pool but it's not that different from that service that matches 11 out of 10 on the hotness scale super models with rich men. If you use a normal dating site the overall selection you'll get will be quite more substantial than 20 even if you filter the heck out of it I'll assume, but still It will most likely not match a maid with a banker. But there is nothing that stops it from matching a school teacher, a doctor that spent his or her life volunteering in Africa instead of getting rich in an LA private practice or a summa cum laude lawyer that decided to become a public defender instead of getting the likes of BP out of trouble. Rich people tend to marry other rich people, attractive people tend to marry other attractive people, people in general tend to marry people who resemble them. Should we also run a piece about how attractive successful men marrying attractive successful women is now considered sexist?