There’s lots of simple effects here that I never noticed. For example, if there’s a 55⁄45 split of the two genders (just counting the heterosexual people), then the minority gender gets an edge of selectiveness, which they enjoy (everyone gets to pick someone they like a bit more than they otherwise would have), but for the majority gender, 18% of them do not have a partner. It’s really bad for the least liked people in the majority group. Lack of a partner can lead to desperation and all sorts of unpleasant experiences.
This post walks through a bunch of effects like this and explains what’s going on in the world. Also it’s got lots of diagrams and jokes and is very engagingly written. I learned a lot from it about modern mating dynamics, and I give it a +4.
The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics is a post that compellingly explains the effects of gender ratios in a social space (a college, a city, etc).
There’s lots of simple effects here that I never noticed. For example, if there’s a 55⁄45 split of the two genders (just counting the heterosexual people), then the minority gender gets an edge of selectiveness, which they enjoy (everyone gets to pick someone they like a bit more than they otherwise would have), but for the majority gender, 18% of them do not have a partner. It’s really bad for the least liked people in the majority group. Lack of a partner can lead to desperation and all sorts of unpleasant experiences.
This post walks through a bunch of effects like this and explains what’s going on in the world. Also it’s got lots of diagrams and jokes and is very engagingly written. I learned a lot from it about modern mating dynamics, and I give it a +4.
(This review is taken from my post Ben Pace’s Controversial Picks for the 2020 Review.)