Yvain comments on Can the Chain Still Hold You? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 January 2012 06:20:39PM 3 points [-]

If I'm understanding you right, you are assuming that a ratio not skewed to favor males or females would result in no more unmarried males than a ratio skewed to favor females.

Am I understanding you right?

If so... that seems unlikely to me. Can you say more about why you expect it?

Comment author: Yvain 13 January 2012 09:38:20PM 5 points [-]

You are of course right, although I stick to the general point that we have to distinguish an effect of fewer unmarried males from an effect that does not directly involve fewer unmarried males.