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At what age? I don't think this is necessarily a refutation of the parent comment even when accounting for the fact that many women in the internet dating demo

At what age? I don't think this is necessarily a refutation of the parent comment even when accounting for the fact that many women in the internet dating demographic aren't old enough to marry yet. If you limit age level to, say, under 30 (probably even older at this point), then up to that age the parent comment could be true while after that age women find their options more limited and choose to settle for the less than X% men and get married.

lkrubner 8y ago
Again, can you specify what test would nullify this hypothesis? What data would you need to see to change your mind on this? I asked in a different comment for a test regarding the kind of data needed to know if this hypothesis is wrong. I'm assuming you'd reject anecdotal data. You can certainly, rather easily, amass a large collection of essays from women who reject this hypothesis. If that data isn't valid, then what kind of data are you looking for? What would you need to see to agree this hypothesis is false?
- mdorazio 8y ago
  Seems pretty simple. My own experience with my circle of friends, coworkers, and family has mirrored the parent post quite closely. This view is further backed by instances where people have actually attempted to measure activity on platforms like Tinder [1][2]. I would want to see actual statistics on median number of dating partners by gender prior to marriage from age 18-35 broken out by age year. Ideally that data would also be broken out by location as well since I have a very strong feeling the parent post posited situation is most common in large cities and less common in smaller ones. [1] http://worst-online-dater.tumblr.com/post/99441021279/tinder-experiments http://worst-online-dater.tumblr.com/post/99441021279/tinder... [2] https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

lkrubner 8y ago

Again, can you specify what test would nullify this hypothesis? What data would you need to see to change your mind on this? I asked in a different comment for a test regarding the kind of data needed to know if this hypothesis is wrong. I'm assuming you'd reject anecdotal data. You can certainly, rather easily, amass a large collection of essays from women who reject this hypothesis. If that data isn't valid, then what kind of data are you looking for? What would you need to see to agree this hypothesis is false?

mdorazio 8y ago
Seems pretty simple. My own experience with my circle of friends, coworkers, and family has mirrored the parent post quite closely. This view is further backed by instances where people have actually attempted to measure activity on platforms like Tinder [1][2]. I would want to see actual statistics on median number of dating partners by gender prior to marriage from age 18-35 broken out by age year. Ideally that data would also be broken out by location as well since I have a very strong feeling the parent post posited situation is most common in large cities and less common in smaller ones. [1] http://worst-online-dater.tumblr.com/post/99441021279/tinder-experiments http://worst-online-dater.tumblr.com/post/99441021279/tinder... [2] https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...