This whole write up seems to fall into the ‘average man’ fallacy, where it is trying to look at the average rate of happiness of men and women in marriages to d

This whole write up seems to fall into the ‘average man’ fallacy, where it is trying to look at the average rate of happiness of men and women in marriages to determine if marriage is on average a good or bad thing. This seems fatally flawed, because there’s no such thing as an average marriage. There will exist all four of these kinds of (heterosexual) marriage: those where both people are happy, those where neither is happy, those where only the man is happy, and those where only the woman is happy. The distribution is far more interesting than the ‘average’ happiness across all these discrete cases.