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Statistically, economic status is highly correlated between couples.

• jongjong 3y ago
  Often, it becomes correlated over time due to social factors. It's a lot easier to make money when you're married to someone with money.
  • chaxor 3y ago
    Or people choose partners that are more similar to their socioeconomic status from the start. See how you can make up any story and make it sound plausible? This is why so many people don't trust studies in psychology or economics.
    • Qwertious 3y ago
      Making up a story and fitting the data around it only happens in psychology or economics. It doesn't happen in the hard sciences, whose papers are always completely trustworthy.
      • TheSpiceIsLife 3y ago
        That's the sort of thing a British person would say.
      • chaxor 3y ago
        (\ _/) (o_o ) < "/s" < \ There ya go, you forgot that
  • HEmanZ 3y ago
    Do you have evidence for this happening after marriage? The only case I have literal evidence against your case is Physicians in the US. About a quarter of physicians marry other physicians, and this has been trending up for a long time: https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-residents/medical-resident-wellness/why-doctors-marry-doctors-exploring-medical-marriages https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-residents/medical-resident-... You can’t claim this is connections after marriage. I strongly suspect the social factor is that high earning professionals (doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc) are already on the same professional tracks when they get married. They have social circles consist mostly of other professionals. When the meet someone to marry, odds are high that person is part of their professional circles.
• jrflowers 3y ago
  While this may be true and borne out by data, I believe jongjong is trying to delicately illustrate something along the lines of the “women be shopping” phenomenon illustrated by the 1996 economics treatise “The Nutty Professor”