[Archelaos]

The results of the survey this article is based on seems to be nonsense. The numbers for women and men in each category should more or less match, unless there were a huge difference in same-sex or one-to-many relationsships or in the absolute numbers of male vs female, which seems implausible.

[giantg2]

I saw that top for the number of single men vs single women, especially considering that women account for 51% of the population. I wonder if there was selection bias, or even if there could be some participants lying due to embarrassment of being single. Although your same-sex and multi relationship thing could be worth looking into. I don't know the numbers, but anecdotally I know way more lesbian women than gay men. And it's a trope that couple look for unicorns (indicating demand).

[nextweek2]

> The numbers for women and men in each category should more or less match

Not quite, the survey focuses on 18-29 age group. It’s not covered in the article but women have a preference for slightly older men.

The women answering in the 27+ age could have corresponding men outside the sample group of men.

[projektfu]

There could be differences in definition between two groups, such as who considers themselves to be in a committed relationship. However, I agree that it appears they have some sampling problems. Also, the methodology is not apparent aside from sample size and I couldn't find it anywhere.