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297 sats \ 9 replies \ @SimpleStacker 23 Mar \ on: American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage charts_and_numbers
Weird stat. There's a huge selection bias here. People who prefer being single are more likely to stay single, and people who prefer marrying are more likely to marry. I bet if you asked married women whether married women or single women are happier, they'd say married women.
This is a bit like asking basketball players whether basketball or baseball is more fun
I didn't bother looking for it, but I've seen happiness reporting that shows married women report higher average happiness levels.
Now, I think that literature is fundamentally silly, but that result makes sense to me.
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I don't know much about the literature on happiness, so can't speak to the quality, but I do like that some people are trying to look at non traditional metrics for social objectives
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I also like that people are looking at different metrics. There's just no way of knowing what to make of one group reporting an average happiness of 7.2 vs another reporting 5.8.
Are their expectations the same? Do they think about the different points on the scale the same way?
With a dif-in-dif, you could take care of some of that, but direct comparisons don't really tell you much. And, even then you don't know if you should think happiness changed or the scale changed.
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There's a huge selection bias here.
Not for men?
Isn't it a comparative study between like to like - Single Men and Single women?
I bet if you asked married women whether married women or single women are happier, they'd say married women.
Then why are most single men believe they are unhappy than maried men?
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Look at the chart again, the question posed to the men is also about the happiness of women
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F**k! I've read the study in detail and didn't see that doesn't imitate the chart. This is written right above the chart here https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-american-romance-how-politics-and-pessimism-influence-dating-experiences/
Interestingly, men and women generally agree that single men are not happier than married men. Fewer than four in 10 single men—and 31 percent of single women—say single men are happier than married men. Married men overwhelmingly reject the notion that single life is better for men. Only 22 percent of married men believe single men are happier than married men.
And it just created the whole confusion. I take my questions back. ;)
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No worries. In any case, that would suggest that more single males are involuntarily single, while more single women are voluntarily single.
The selection bias is still there, it's just smaller in magnitude for men
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Thanks 🙏
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