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by igetspam 1211 days ago
Many studies disagree with you thought.

Here's one article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2...

Single women, it turns out, are the happiest. And then single women with kids. Men have to change or we'll become obsolete. Our UX, in general, is bad.

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I see this study brought up a lot, there's actually an interesting misconception that the researcher Paul Dolan failed to admit which corrupted the study. He cited the American Time Use Survey on the survey's data point of "Spouse absent", but he interpreted the meaning of the point as "spouse left the room and subject will be honest about their feelings" versus "subject is divorced or separated from the spouse". As you can imagine, this wildly changes the reason of why women are unhappy.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/4/18650969/married...

Interesting poll.

So I guess the comparison of 60% single young males vs. 30% single young females would be even more one-sided if we discount those who are willingly single and wouldn't want to change that status.

Life is hard for young men these days.

This is the most HN comment I've seen on this thread here. Excellently done.