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