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

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      nah all the women are dating each other. men just need to catch up. :strangelove: WE CANNOT ALLOW A GAY RELATIONSHIP GAP!

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Holy shit how are you the first person to say this lol. This is like common knowledge.

        This website is actually too gay to understand cishet relationships. Based af from hexbear

        It also sucks hard as a man generally attracted to women a few years older, it's like trying to swim upstream in the dating world

        • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          to the extent of 34% of men and 68% of women in the 18-29 age range though? i find that to be statistically erroneous. if i'm wrong and it's just a big wide world of older men dating younger less socially experienced women (that are presumably easier to control and abuse?) to the extent that that percentage of these relationships fall outside the bounds of the 18-29 age bin, then i would like to leave this planet immediately.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah it doesn't explain the entire gap, but it does explain some part of it. Average age gap between couples in most western countries is two to three years, so it's more like men in their early 30s dating women in their late 20s. And I'd wager the majority of men in the age 18-29 group in the serious relationship category of the survey are over 24/25. And it's not like the men under 25 are super lonely (though they are more lonely than before), they're probably just not in a serious relationship.

          • piaoliang [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            older men dating younger less socially experienced women (that are presumably easier to control and abuse?)

            ding ding ding ding ding

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It also sucks hard as a man generally attracted to women a few years older, it’s like trying to swim upstream in the dating world

          Based on my own experience, after a certain point the only question is whether you're okay with your partner being a divorcee and/or single mother.

        • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          This website is actually too gay to understand cishet relationships

          Thanks for the compliment.