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Re:Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Ou... by Someone1234 on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @03:42PM (#10299009)
To be frank, if there legitimately are a glut of women who aren't able to find a "college educated man" (and, frankly, I doubt such a phenomenon exists in reality) then maybe these people will have to settle for men who are simply just successful, college educated or not.

However I highly doubt college graduation numbers has much to do with the women near thirty who are unable to find a partner. I'm sure their standards are just set in such a way as to reduce the dating pool significantly (and I suspect more than just academic background is listed).

PS - This interview gets quite sexist and generalising as you go. They give up even pretending that the numbers are influencing their opinion about halfway down and then it is just purely an opinion piece on "the problem with men these days..."

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Re:Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Ou... by jcromartie on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:00PM (#10299166)
I really don't understand what college has to do with it. Are well-rounded interests and a high-paying job not enough to be ahead of the pack anymore?
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Re:Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Ou... by krisroadruck on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:02PM (#10299183)
No. They must also be tall. And willing to overlook any sort of weight issues or flaws on the other parties behalf.
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Re:Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Ou... by Houshalter on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @07:59PM (#10300750)
It's easy to get statistics on. Whereas more subjective things are... more subjective. And it seems to be relevant:

>But there have been multiple studies on this and it turns out Americans have become less likely, over the past 50 years, to marry and date across educational lines.

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Re:Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Ou... by tomp on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @03:46PM (#10299049)
> [...] near thirty [...] I'm sure their standards are just set in such a way as to reduce the dating pool significantly

I'm not there yet, but looking at the trends of people my age getting married, the dating pool is necessarily significantly reduced by then, so to keep your options open, you need to lower your standards significantly. Maybe men need to do so less, because anecdotally more women are attracted to older men than vice versa.

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Re:Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Ou... by acgourley on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:01PM (#10299173)
https://xkcd.com/314/
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