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I doubt it. Water finds its own level. Most people date/marry someones equally attractive, from an equal class, with equal education. That's fairly standard a
by notadoc 9y ago
I doubt it.
Water finds its own level.
Most people date/marry someones equally attractive, from an equal class, with equal education. That's fairly standard and always has been, which is why most people marry someone from their college, a job, church, or some other shared experience. It's the shared experience that typically brings people together, and keeps them together.
And of course there are many cultures around the world with arranged marriages, and those almost always specifically aim to match equals from the same class background (or higher).
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Most people date/marry someones equally attractive, from an equal class, with equal education. Historically, the second has been strongly true, the first much less so, and the last basically false, though somewhat less untrue if you read “equal” as “in a roughly similar point on the distribution for their gender”. > And of course there are many cultures around the world with arranged marriages, and those almost always specifically aim to match equals from the same class background (or higher). If someone is getting higher, the other partner is getting lower. There is a necessary symmetry there.
- lotsofpulp 9y agoSince women weren't typically attend higher schooling until very recently, it doesn't make sense to compare it historically. I've seen people go higher and lower within their class, but not really go from one class to another, unless the person is supermodel worthy.
- notyourday 9y agoThe really funny part is that SA demonstrated that it is also the case is arrangement - pretty much no one cares about the bottom 80% and people pay a boatload of money for early access to the top 5%.