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College educated single women outnumber college educated single men in nearly all places except 6 communities: San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, a part of Los
by doctorpangloss 8y ago
College educated single women outnumber college educated single men in nearly all places except 6 communities: San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, a part of Los Angeles, Austin and a part of Manhattan. Certainly not Chicago or Miami, or surprisingly not even Seattle! The difficulty of college educated single women to find partners in most places in the US is legendary.0
No, what you’re observing is a uniquely tech industry, predominantly California phenomenon. Look at those cities soberly.
On the other hand, among the non college educated, single men outnumber single women everywhere, at practically all ages.
There is no logical root of this problem. It doesn’t arise naturally from the math, or some innate human behavior. Most demographers studying this believe the education gap is responsible for a feeling of not living up to social standards of companionship. That’s where the data leads.
See http://labs.time.com/story/see-the-ratio-of-single-men-to-women-where-you-live/ http://labs.time.com/story/see-the-ratio-of-single-men-to-wo... for a simple version, or read Date-o-nomics or Dataclysm for more discussion on the matter.
- lazyjones 8y agoYour mistake is that you assume "top x%" equals "college-educated". Education is lower in the list of preferred attributes for women than you think, at least for dating.
- InGodsName 8y agoExactly, i didn't attend any college and I've been into business for long time. I've no shortage of girls who want to date me. You need to be good looking and independent. I am somwhat typical asshole type (i am improving), yet it works fine:) None of the women i dated were richer than me.
- toomuchtodo 8y ago> Education is lower in the list of preferred attributes for women than you think, at least for dating. The data does not agree (as it relates to college-educated women). https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/10/dating-gap-hook-up-culture-female-graduates https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/10/dating-... https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-college-educated-women-cant-find-love https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-college-educated-women-can... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2017/07/20/how-i-realized-it-was-okay-to-date-a-man-less-educated-than-i-am/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2017/07/20/ho... The TLDR is that men date down, women prefer not to.
- lazyjones 8y agoTLDR, there is no shortage of made-up statistics and irrelevant data...
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- imaginenore 8y agoI think there's a lot of confusion in these articles about dating for sex vs dating for settling down. Women seek radically different men for these activities, and the first one doesn't necessarily lock the chosen man.
- doctorpangloss 8y agoI’m just trying to share people’s books and actual knowledge, instead of folk wisdom and self soothing disguised as a math expression.
- will4274 8y ago> There is no logical root of this problem. It doesn’t arise naturally from the math, or some innate human behavior If you assume that men don't care if their partners are educated as much as women do, the dynamic you describe arises naturally, as college educated men remove non-college educated women from the dating market.