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
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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
That probably makes a small difference, not huge tho, there aren't that much more queer women than men and most bi women are in hetero relationships (because there's a larger dating pool of straight/bi men than queer women). Nothing that would explain a 29% difference.
It's probably a combination of margin of error and a lot of women in their mid/late 20's dating men in their 30's rather than their own age bracket
If you look at singleness for men and women of all ages there's only a 4% difference, which is consistent with there being more women than men and slightly more WLW than MLM relationships