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> Also, many more women than men are college educated now

No, not even close:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai...

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

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Err -- did you look at your graph? Your first link shows that 2017 was the first year that more women were educated then men....and your second link is from 2015, before the flip.

Of course I looked at the graph. Even though women earned more degrees than men in 2017, for nearly the entire history of the country, men earned substantially more college degrees than women. Thus, men currently hold significantly more than half of the college degrees right now. We're talking about prevalence, not incidence.

You are correct, but current college graduates (so 56% of them women) are in the "dating pool" much more so than the 60-year olds (where a higher percentage of men are educated, but not much dating going on).

Your own links support my statement.

Here is some additional data from the Department of Education demonstrating that women make up 56% of college students nationwide:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_303.70.a...

And some lighter reading on the topic if you're not into reviewing raw numbers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-me...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/gender-...

You might have a personal opinion on the data, or maybe you don't like the data, but data is data.

Keep in mind that these appear to be for the population as a whole. Since women have overtaken men recently from what used to be a pretty significant disparity, that should mean that recent years have seen a significantly higher proportion of women getting college degrees vs. men.

It's not significantly higher. And we are talking about the population as a whole. I'm refuting the point that "many more women than men are college educated now". This is incorrect. See my other response regarding incidence vs. prevalence.

But we should not be talking about the population as a whole - just the 25-35 year-old segment who are in the dating pool. And in that age group, college-educated women may outnumber men.

They have to, and by a significant margin, for the trends in the graph on the OP's source to obtain.

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