Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1195kb7/us_most_young_men_are_single_most_young_women_are/

Halfway down the thread someone mentions that this article is based on a self-reported pew research poll and not any kind of more in-depth study.

Also whoever wrote the article either didn’t understand the actual poll or just outright lied about what the data showed lmao

comment on this:

If you drill down into the actual source of the data, which is a Pew research poll, you find a specific definition of "single". It is not actually "are you [not] dating someone".

In these stats, "single" refers to people who "are not married, living with a partner or in a committed relationship".

The important part here: a committed relationship. This is self-reported by the people being polled.

If two people are in a relationship, one may answer "yes" to this and the other may answer "no", depending on whether they see it as a "committed" relationship.

Thus, there is an interesting explanation for at least part of the data - perhaps young men don't consider themselves "committed" as often.

Combined with the age distribution phenomenon, this likely covers pretty much all of the discrepancy in the stats.

Original Pew Poll: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/02/08/for-valentines-day-5-facts-about-single-americans/ft_2023-02-08_facts-single-americans_01/

Fashy bros love to avoid putting a label on things and then blame women for not being in a relationship lol

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Who do these idiots think women are dating if most men are single and women are not?

    Do they think most women are lesbians or something?

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      pls don't tell people about the lesbification ray, i already got in so much shit at Antifa HQ after the havannah syndrome gun was leaked.

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      uhhh women in their 20s dating men in their 30s? fine if it's late and early, pretty sus when it's matt gaetz or leo.

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          not automatically, but it's ripe for unhealthy dynamics and 23/35 is definitely weird.

            • Enver_McTim [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Eh that rule is kinda bs, 24 and 35 is definintely odd and 20 & 26 + 18 & 24 also check out which are almost weirder.

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                The addendum for it is that it only works when the youngest age is 20

                And gets more accurate as the ages go up. I kinda want to modify it so there's some logarithmic constant that's associated with each age as a multiplier

                • Enver_McTim [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  it only works when the youngest age is 20

                  20 & 26, 28 & 21, 30 & 22 are all icky

                  I kinda want to modify it

                  Maybe [age divided by 1.5 plus 5]? Not exactly like what you described but I think it's a little better

                  https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xlx8ze4pbf

          • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Fair enough. I think the biggest gap in my family was when my cousin at 24 dated a guy at 31. They ended up getting married but there were definitely whispers in the family about it being weird.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I didn't realise they weren't counting over 29s

        Still seems weird though, they can't all be dating over 30s to the point that it would skew the data like that.

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          i think we've all spent entirely too much time thinking about what is probably garbage data to begin with but yeah i'm not saying that's the whole reason.