Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by valbaca on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:24PM (#29005804)

Honestly, kind of boring results.

- Volume wins out: there are lots of teachers and nurses

- Like-marries-like: most marry someone in their own profession

Not that boring is bad. Just interesting that the trends overshadow any kind of special results.

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by Gunax on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:36PM (#29007255)

Yea, I think a more interesting analysis would have based on frequency of profession. That is, how far away (+% / -%) from a random matching is it?

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by SomewhatLikely on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:12PM (#29009171)

Was thinking the same. Something like pointwise mutual information would do the trick.

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by aitchnyu on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:49AM (#29010599)

Yeah, this vis needs to filter out teachers and nurses since they are top results for anybody, and/or professions need to be color coded by category so I can glance at a list of 15 items and see that ${medicalprofessional} surprisingly marries educators.

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by Terretta on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @08:52PM (#29021019)

Rather than filter just those two, it could have an option to re-weight by availability.

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by Litmus2336 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:15AM (#29010739)

I'm also curious what percentage of people married to people in their career field is due to meeting on the job. Are you more likely to marry someone in your profession? Or is "working together" just a very common way to meet your spouse?

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