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Ooh. That's credible. A right wing think tank!

I'll see you and raise you "single women are happier"'

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2...

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> Ooh. That's credible. A right wing think tank!

Does that really count as coming from a right wing think tank?

The article there just cites a paper, "Gender Asymmetry in Educational and Assortative Marriage", that was in the Journal of Marriage and Family, and has a short interview with one of the paper's authors.

That journal is from the National Council on Family Relations. I can't find anything that suggests they are conservative. If anything what I'm finding in Google tends to have them more on the liberal side of things. E.g., their board's statement against anti-trans legislation [1].

> I'll see you and raise you "single women are happier"'

I don't think you are using "I'll see you and raise you" correctly. It's suppose to be followed by something that contradicts what you are replying to. What your link and his talk about are orthogonal.

https://www.ncfr.org/news/ncfr-board-directors-statement-res...

It does because the site is a right wing think tank but I will give that my link is more about "women are happier when they get to be people first" and it doesn't contradict the "women often marry up in income." The problem with starting with a place like a right wing think tank's evaluation of a study is that the goal is to sell a narrative that aligns with their existing bias. See the use of the word "prefer" which is only used once in the interview and it's from a leading question that asserts the preference to be true. It's easy for women to marry up economically: find a man doing your same job, marry him and he'll likely get paid more.

Additionally, it's easy for better educated women to do that same. Find qualified women in various industries and review the educational qualifications of their male peers who are making more than them and... same outcome.

So yes, I find the source to be problematic. I have not read the cited study itself but I did see that fun Q&A.

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