[kyleschiller]

Is it possible that your dating pool is subject to sampling bias?

Empirically speaking, about 1/4 of people in STEM are women, so if you've met 0 women interested in STEM, it seems like your experience simply aren't an accurate reflection of reality. [0]

I think it's incredibly ironic that you're highlighting your own relative interest in STEM while failing to apply any degree of scientific rigor to your own thinking.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...

[carlmr]

Which country do you assume OP is in? In Germany women only make up 16% of engineers http://www.zeit.de/2013/38/frauenanteil-ingenieure. In my starting class of 300 ten years ago there were 5 women in electrical and computer engineering. Mech and building engineering was much higher. Computer science was somewhat in between. In my high school some girls went for math and many for medicine (still a science, somewhat), but none went for engineering or computer science AFAIK.

I think you're too easily discounting his personal experience. If you ask me, at least in Germany, EE and CS is pretty much devoid of women. And if you're talking about dating, a small pool of women surrounded by men will probably be off the market most of the time. So him never dating engineers at least in my experience, is the norm.

They're doing a lot here to attract girls to STEM, but it isn't bearing much fruit.

[overcast]

Oh brother, there's always that one guy on HN. None of this was supposed to "scientific", so relax. I'm giving you my 37 years of experience dating at least a couple hundred women, that's it.

[malteof]

That's fine as long as you don't try to draw any conclusions from your anecdote :-)

[dang]

Please don't be rude, even if someone's reply seemed nitpicky.