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Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by oh_sigh »

throwaway8818 wrote: post #12

Yoga instructor is missing. That's pretty much the ideal wife (lots of free time, unreasonably fit), and I'd like to know what job to obtain in order to be pursued by yoga instructors. And DJ is missing. Which prevents us from confirming the hypothesis that DJ's do better than JD's. http://longorshortcapital.com/short-jds.htm Most men seek the JD to “make a lot of money” which is really just a euphemism for “power ov…

> Most men seek the JD to “make a lot of money” which is really just a euphemism for “power over women.”

The first sentence is so wrong, I can't even bother reading on.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by Chris2048 »

djcapelis wrote: post #50
peter303 wrote: post #22

Business Insider has run several articles of the urban college female "problem". With 30% more females obtaining college degrees currently than males plus that males generally dont marry up, there is a surplus of 20-something college females in all metropolitan areas except San Francisco and Washington DC. Good news for guys then. One silly article tried explain the success of hookup apps is that more desperate femal…

As a queer woman, I have to say this doesn't seem like a problem to me and I think you've made some bad assumptions about who this is good news for.

Why as a queer woman? How's that relevant?

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by grandDesigns »

afinlayson wrote: post #13

I guess I should stop using Tinder/OkCupid, and start going to teacher meetings

Teachers and Nurses appear often simply because there are a lot of them compared to all other occupations. There are, say, 100times more female teachers than female X for all other X.

Most common human Bayesian fallacy: forgetting the priors.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by auntyJemima »

peter303 wrote: post #22

Business Insider has run several articles of the urban college female "problem". With 30% more females obtaining college degrees currently than males plus that males generally dont marry up, there is a surplus of 20-something college females in all metropolitan areas except San Francisco and Washington DC. Good news for guys then. One silly article tried explain the success of hookup apps is that more desperate femal…

Males generally dont marry up?

Couple things come to mind. Throughout my time, I've seen that women have their fair share of not wanting to marry down either. You want to say generalizations generalizations. Sure, but I think the age old stereotypes do have a hint of truth to them and the Bloomberg page here also states, "High-earning women (doctors, lawyers) tend to pair up with their economic equals, while middle- and lower-tier women often marry up."

You say problem in quotation marks and I don't know why that is? If people are not finding their partners, that's a huge problem.

Here's the anecdotal: My sister and her friends are all pretty educated women. Unfortunately, their standards have really gone up since receiving said education. I'm not saying this to bash, it's simply my observation. These days, they're all still single and reaching/past 30 and no man can scratch their itch. The whole thing is problematic.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by mhb »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #48

This chart is massively unusable. As a guy, what occupation do I need to be in to increase my chances of marrying a woman CEO?

It tells you in the introductory paragraph. You need to be a CEO. So better improve at reading the executive summaries.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by douche »

mklim wrote: post #56
jrmurad wrote: post #17

Most interesting connection I saw: "Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs" "Unemployed, with no work experience in last 5 years"

EDIT: Nevermind, some commenters further downthread pointed out that the visualization was adjusted to always show same sex lines. For me it was some of these jobs not having heterosexual lines in both directions. "Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers", "Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters", and "Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers" don't have any female -> male lines at all if I'm readi…

It might be that those professions are so dominated by one sex that there is very little data. Finding a female welder, pipefitter or lineman... er, person, is like finding a unicorn.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by elorant »

mikejholly wrote: post #70
elorant wrote: post #21

The usability of the page is pathetic. First, the fonts are too small. If you enlarge then you can't scroll horizontally to see the rest of the titles because the lines get in the way. Didn't anyone think to make the graph clickable instead of just mouse-over. And on top of everything we have the heading of the site that floats and gets in the way. Fucking hell. Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it b…

How do they sleep at night!? /s

Drunk and with good company.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by run4yourlives2 »

Chris2048 wrote: post #72
djcapelis wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a queer woman, I have to say this doesn't seem like a problem to me and I think you've made some bad assumptions about who this is good news for.

Why as a queer woman? How's that relevant?

She means it's also good news for her...

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Post by mklim »

douche wrote: post #76
mklim wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EDIT: Nevermind, some commenters further downthread pointed out that the visualization was adjusted to always show same sex lines. For me it was some of these jobs not having heterosexual lines in both directions. "Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers", "Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters", and "Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers" don't have any female -> male lines at all if I'm readi…

It might be that those professions are so dominated by one sex that there is very little data. Finding a female welder, pipefitter or lineman... er, person, is like finding a unicorn.

There's enough women in the profession to have female -> female lines originating out of them, though. The implication is that there's a huge majority of queer women in them, to the point where heterosexual ones won't even show up on a visualization despite how much of a minority GLBT people are in the general population. (Or, alternatively: heterosexual women in those professions don't marry for whatever reason, and queer ones do.)
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