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That's pretty far from 50-50, man. It means one out of every ten men won't have a partner if you naively paired them up.
by arjie 11y ago
That's pretty far from 50-50, man. It means one out of every ten men won't have a partner if you naively paired them up.
- olalonde 11y agoIf that 34 million figure is correct, it would be 2.5%, not 10% ("one out of every ten").
- shrewduser 11y agosure, but you'd have to look at the age / demographics too wouldn't you? it might be 2.5% of the total population but women live longer on average than men so what happens if you look between the ages of say 20 to 30?
- thaumasiotes 11y agoThe "one out of every ten" figure is basically correct given the division stated in tomp's comment. Assume the population is 47.5% female / 52.5% male. Then, for every 525 men, there are 475 women. This means out of every 525 men, (525-475) = 50 of them can't mate, which is 9.5%. However, tomp is wrong that 2.5% of the population being surplus men implies that the population share is 47.5-52.5 (this split means 5% of the population are surplus men, not 2.5%). It actually implies 48.75-51.25, which means about 4.9% of men have no female counterpart in the population. And this is intuitively correct; if 2.5% of the whole population can't find a partner, and all of those people are men, and the numbers of men and women are approximately equal, it should be the case that about 5% of men can't find a partner.
- ta_donk_gt 11y agoI come up with 4.9%. 1.35 billion in China, and assuming 34 million more men than women, that gives 692 million men and 658 million women. 34 million of those 692 million men do not have a corresponding woman. 34/692 = 0.04913294797688.
- olalonde 11y agoOh, you're right, I divided by the entire population instead of the the male population only.
- onlyrealcuzzo 11y agoMaybe they should let gay relationships on TV...