Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home

Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by tomp on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:11PM (#27478553)

This complaint should be taken about as seriously as a rich person complaining how hard it is to be rich.

Every woman can put herself in a man's position of no matches - just delete Tinder. Every rich person can become poor - just give away all their money.

Yet they don't. It's called revealed preferences. Because having options, no matter how bad, is better than not having options.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by fossuser on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:19PM (#27478641)

There's also an obvious selection bias - the matches may be sending low quality messages, but if women are largely selecting only the top 2% of good looking men they're skewing these results themselves. The 'better' men never get to the messaging stage at all.

I'm happy to be out of the game, but online dating is bleak for 98% of men.

Okcupid used to have great data on this before they sold out, a lot of it ended up in this book:https://www.amazon.com/Dataclysm-Identity-What-Online-Offlin...

The data in that book corroborates a lot of this. We're not that different from gorillas - sexual selection is tough and most of the discussion around it ranges from wrong to dishonest.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by tacocataco on Saturday June 12, 2021 @12:47PM (#27485640)

Do you mind if you can explain okcupid selling out? I'm currently on the platform.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by fossuser on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:37PM (#27488388)

The founders sold to match.com a few years back.

After that the cool data blog was killed.

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