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Your 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 fo
by lazyjones 8y ago
Your 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.