This was well put, thank you.

There are a lot of posters making this general point in terms of common sense and evolutionary biology, but the post we're responding to is about statistics.

There is a statistical (and therefore actionable) way to weight the curves, in terms of likelihood of marriage between a man and a woman of a given age. Getting the relevant data might be difficult, but all marriages are recorded, and matching the names of the relevant parties to other records showing their age may at least be contemplated.

If anyone has a few months to pull this together I'm sure we'd all enjoy it!