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Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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I was not surprised to see that programmers marry other programmers

I am! Everywhere I've worked the gender imbalance is so extreme that it'd be impossible unless all the guys are married to each other.

Well it topped out at ~14%. At least it suggest women in programming quite heavily preferred their counterpart coders.

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Many anecdotal guesses are validated by this data. Doctors and agricultural workers are the obvious standouts, but I see a few more too.

Us programmers stick together. Quite a high rate of marrying within the community. Lawyers show a similarly high number.

A criticism of the study, is that it does not normalize by how many of these professions are in the general population. So, it appears as though software analysts don't like intermarrying. However, the truth is that there simply aren't enough of them around, they are simply more likely to run into software engineers, so that's whom they marry most.

IE. This study captures P(running into a profession) x P(preference for that profession). I would love to them model P(running into a profession), so that we could get the much juicer preferences of each group for various professions.

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might be a mobile display bug, but the match% between “other ag workers” and themselves is greater than highest value of the bottom axis

So it overflows the chart on desktop Firefox for me, but, the buttom axis caps out on the right at 22%. It looks like they hardcoded the graph axis, and so since other agricultural workers are at 23%, it overflows.

Good catch. I didn’t see the bottom axis. Edited my comment accordingly.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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I was not surprised to see that programmers marry other programmers

I am but I am not as well. I have found male programmers to have a more diverse dating/marriage pool, though most are still "tech"-y office jobs e.g. designer. That's just middle/upper middle class sticking together though. Female programmers I've met almost exclusively date or are married to other programmers.

Well, there is an incredibly skewed gender ratio in programming.

So, female programmers pretty much get the pick of the pack among their peer groups. (Not judging, just stating statistics)

The other 80-ish% men in programming still need to find love somewhere, so they cast a wider net.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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I was not surprised to see that programmers marry other programmers

I am! Everywhere I've worked the gender imbalance is so extreme that it'd be impossible unless all the guys are married to each other.

Perhaps a disproportionate number of software devs are unmarried?

My own experience actually reflects this situation. On my team, the only married people are married to other software people or teachers. The unmarried all date teachers.

Obviously anecdotal but interesting.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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post #18

Unfortunately, the statistician or data scientist that put this visualization together neglected to include statisticians and data scientists in the list of searchable jobs.

I would be interested in seeing this data by age so we can see any changes in the past few decades. Perhaps profession on marriage date. I do not expect there to be decent data available for this though.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am but I am not as well. I have found male programmers to have a more diverse dating/marriage pool, though most are still "tech"-y office jobs e.g. designer. That's just middle/upper middle class sticking together though. Female programmers I've met almost exclusively date or are married to other programmers.

Well, there is an incredibly skewed gender ratio in programming. So, female programmers pretty much get the pick of the pack among their peer groups. (Not judging, just stating statistics) The other 80-ish% men in programming still need to find love somewhere, so they cast a wider net.

Makes sense! Just surprised — obviously love > all, but I'd prefer to date someone in a different field of work myself.
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