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Re:Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out by Hexstream on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @07:18AM (#550720)
No no, seriously. There was a TED presentation about this unintuitive phenomenon. It was posted here a while ago.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_...

edit: Fixed the link, it wasn't the one I meant to link to.

Re:Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out by dkarl on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @01:24PM (#551291)
Yeah, I know you're serious. I'm just pointing out that there's a difference (and evidently one that is important psychologically) between a situation where there is only one possibility and a situation where there are many possibilities, but somebody else chooses for you. I know people who stayed angry for years because their parents made them go to a certain college or their boss canceled a product line they created.