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Why your wife should be 27% smarter than you
- cduan 17y agoLink to actual paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1102378 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1102378 EDIT: This must be an early version of the paper, or the linked article is substantially overstating its conclusions. (Is there a student on HN who can get free access to the published version?) I don't even see a metric for intelligence, other than a binary high/low.
- jey 17y agoThe one "good" thing about this paper is that they don't even try to defend the arbitrariness of their model. Absolutely not "robust". EDIT: The copy I looked through was the published one. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.009
- armandososa 17y ago> "your wife should have a college degree, and you should not" I don't think college degree == more intelligence, but I'm for the 5 years younger and same cultural background concepts.
- philk 17y agoHell, as I age I'm for the "10 years younger" concept. Call me in five years and I'll discuss the virtue of "15 years younger".
- armandososa 17y agoIn a nutshell, your perfect wife is always 20-25 no matter what's your age :P
- greenlblue 17y agoAhh, the glories of scientific research, reinforcing useless bias since 1989. This is why I got into this racket.
- sabat 17y agoOne more reason I wish PG would implement a vote-down function.
- albertsun 17y agoUgh.... when http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236686 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236686 was posted it was as a joke. This guy seems to be taking papers like that at face value.