No, 80% of women are sharing the top 20% of men. On dating apps this trend is further exaggerated, men "swipe right" on roughly 50% of profiles while women swipe right on 5%.
(TLDR dating marketplace and the value of participants within the market has rapidly shifted)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/10/dating-...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-h...
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/20/americans-s...
Doesn't sound like a high level of happiness to me.
That often cited study is very shaky at best and has been challenged numerous times. Check Wikipedia[0] on the author in question if you wish to dive into that rabbit hole.
Should also be obvious the study in question has to be taken in the context of a major shift in expectations on women. If anything, it's a miracle his 'findings' did not say the same for men too.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dolan_(behavioural_scient...
I could accept women being unhappier in marriage than single, but I'm skeptical on the outcome being different for men than women without there being a very simple way for society to solve it.
The number one complaint I hear among women not wanting to get married / being picky is the potential future of requiring both a 0.6+FTE job and doing 30+ hours of housekeeping. That complaint is near universal among the developed world. Yet, there are plenty of men willing to share household duties, which in turn makes their number of hours spent "working" higher than before. Exactly the same situation as women. Yet somehow, the study would conclude something surpasses that for men to make them happier in marriage than women, while other studies tend to claim women are the ones who actively seek and value comfort and companionship more than men. That's not to mention child count going down and children used to be one of the biggest time / responsibility sinks.
All of that sounds rather fishy. It's not like men don't have their fair share of things to work through in a modern marriage, and bad picks can be, well, not picked. Especially today, with those traditional norms being removed.
Tons of people are single and having sex with random hookups and still feeling lonely.
And just because 80% of women are matching with only 20% of men, that doesn't mean they're actually talking or meeting up.
Is your assertion that 80% of women are actively in a relationship with a man who is also in a relationship with 3 other women?
This seems highly exaggerated. Can you cite any empirical evidence?
If the claim was that 80% of women on dating apps are sharing the top 20% of men on dating apps, I could believe it. But that's missing something huge: "Men represent approximately 62% of dating app users". Women are a minority on dating apps, despite being equal in population. They're significantly underrepresented. So dating apps don't even explain the situation of the majority of women.