Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
by danilor on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:50AM
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I don't get it. Wouldn't anyone's chances of marrying any group be higher if we assume they are married at all? Because "being married" is a super set of "being married to a person from X group"?
Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
by JZumun on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:10AM
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I think an extreme example might help: if there are 100 software developers but 98 are single, and 2 are married to each other, then 100% of software developers(that are married couples) have married software developers, even if only 2% of all software developers are married at all.
Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:01AM
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Because "being married" is a smaller superset of "being married to a software developer" than "being alive" is.
It's the same reason there's a higher rate of being married to software developers among people who are married to software developers than there is among the general population.
But this data is specifically "among married couples". The male software developer's chances of marrying a software developer are much, much higher if we just assume he's married in the first place.