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Dating your way into debt
- zerostar07 15y agoThe article: http://www.csom.umn.edu/assets/166362.pdf http://www.csom.umn.edu/assets/166362.pdf This excerpt: "sex-specific data are not available for these kinds of aggregate measures, making it impossible to determine whether the relationship between sex ratio and desire for immediate access to rewards is driven by men, women, or perhaps both genders" tells me their conclusion is a load of b.s.
- sp332 15y agoActually MIT points out "in follow-up lab experiments, the researchers found that men are more willing to spend money quickly in social settings with marked gender imbalances." So they're looking at multiple studies. But I agree that the conclusions seem unwarranted, e.g. Seeing more men around them in these environments activates a competitive mindset, which leads to a short-term, spend-now approach. Um really? Maybe men prefer to spend money in the presence of other men. Or they're afraid of being taken advantage of by women if they flaunt their money. Or any number of other, completely unwarranted conclusions you want to jump to.
- zerostar07 15y agoOr - Occam's razor - "men are more prone to take (monetary) risks", which is not exactly news.
- sp332 15y agoI might believe that men are more likely to take risks than women in general, but there's no reason to say that they spend more when there are more men around just because they are competing harder for women. How about an environment where there are no women? Would they spend the most, or the least in that situation?