April 11, 2008
why are there so few eligible bachelors
Game theory applied to the eligible-bachelor paradox:
The pool of appealing men shrinks as many are married off and taken out of the game, leaving a disproportionate number of men who are notably imperfect (perhaps they are short, socially awkward, underemployed). And at the same time, you get a pool of women weighted toward the attractive, desirable “strong bidders.” Where have all the most appealing men gone? Married young, most of them — and sometimes to women whose most salient characteristic was not their beauty, or passion, or intellect, but their decisiveness.
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I always knew I was short (5′ 6″), and I always knew I was “notably imperfect”. But I never knew till now that the second was clearly linked to the first.
hey, I’m all three.
Deron, I didn’t know you were short.
at the risk of accepting the further implications…. isn’t 5’9″ considered short these days?
Not if you’re me and not quite 5’4″. Of course, I’m not NBA material, true.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the average height for a man in the US is 5 feet 9.2 inches.
great! so now I’m average, socially awkward, and underemployed.
No, you’re short. You’re just 5’9″, not 5’9.2″. Trifecta!
I’m 5’10″, yall.
I love it that my guy Jon is the same height and weight as Bruce Lee. Plus: through some weird alchemy, we’ve been able to wear one another’s clothes for decades! And we do.
Cindy you’re a giant, not that i have a clue about feet and inches
Alek, I’m 178 centimeters. That’s pretty tall for a girl.
Here’s what’s scary. Mia is only 6 1/2 years old, and she’s already 4’5″ (132 centimeters). She really is going to be a giant.
i have a friend who is 180 and when we rode horses together my mother referred to us as Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, though i’m pretty scrawny to be Sancho
I am 162 cm tall. I am a midget.
Alek, you are also too quixotic to be Sancho Panza.
Sheila, i imagined you very tall, so tall you are despite the numbers
Get out! Imagined me tall, Alek! Nah! Maybe I tumbled into wonderland and crashed through the looking-glass in order to imagine myself other than what I am.
in Cindy’s and my friend Gabi’s [180] league
So Tracy thought that I kicked righteous ass and you thought I was tall. Damn. I am a poseur, like I told Tracy.
In my junior high Unit Four Plus Two (aka Gang of Six), there are three girls, three boys. Height-wise, Sheila is in the middle of the three girls, but I am the very shortest boy. None of us is a giant. Did we group evolutionarily for protection against the larger?
I could take all y’all.
Cindy
I’m 6’1″ , I’m pretty sure, rasslin’ you could make me say “uncle!”
Am I the Littlest Flocker? (5′ 3 1/2″ or thereabouts.)
I thought Alek, Cooper, and Sheila were taller.
Rick’s height is on the money.
I never imagined Deron to be average in any way.
Cindy, in my mind you were the small one, heightwise.
Centimeters are funny.
Objects in the Internet may be closer than they appear.