Wouldn't the fact that most weddings from the NYT announcements are between people of similar income level be strong evidence that high socialization leads to income disparity?https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/how-americas-marriage-crisis-makes-income-inequality-so-much-worse/280056/ …
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Evidently, even though the most of the "elites" in question are woke on the question of meritocracy -- they still value the "unearned" merit in their potential spouses sufficiently enough to cause an income inequality crisis!
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I think this also gives us a hint as to what role that "PhD" suffix plays in the Twitter handle/bio -- since another fact that's been observed is that social stratification happens not only on income level but also on education level!https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133976/ …
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The abstract in the above study is worth reading twice, btw, since the last sentence in it directly contradicts the entire study -- it is worth contemplating whypic.twitter.com/StjbMtclmi
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @robert_mariani
Well, do they mean better as in more volume or higher quality?
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I mean hell I know a college-educated guy who believes in all this anti-elitism populist nonsense who couldn't find a gf and when I suggested looking at women without degrees he rejected the idea out of hand.
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Replying to @CathyReisenwitz @robert_mariani
I think the researchers who conducted the above study have encountered a few anecdotes like that as well...
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If I may offer an anecdote, my roommate, a very bright take-no-bullshit kid with Russian parents, once explained his Lebensphilosophie, which went like this: "I know that I am very-above-average in smarts, however I also want my kids to be physically attractive"
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @robert_mariani
That's the kind of coupling that's getting more and more rare
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Replying to @CathyReisenwitz @robert_mariani
Indeed -- and I wouldn't be surprised that one of primary reasons for that is declining proportion of men in the body of students.
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smh get you a spouse that can do both curious tho is physical beauty actually particularly heritable?
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What are you doing in this thread, eigen?
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