gwern comments on Optimizing for attractiveness - Less Wrong

13 Post author: MrMind 31 May 2013 09:14AM

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Comment author: gwern 02 June 2013 08:15:54PM 1 point [-]

It seems that a disproportionate amount of married nerds I met in real life have asian wives, and there's probably some interesting explanation, though I don't know which one.

I've wondered how much of this could just be socio-economic status matching: whites and east Asians in the USA are probably the two wealthiest and best-educated groups at this point.

Comment author: Emile 03 June 2013 08:01:03AM 0 points [-]

That doesn't fit my observations much: here in France, East Asians are a quite small slice of the wealthy-and-educated, first because there's not that many of them, and second because the older generation's ideal for their children is more "take over the family business" rather than "get a prestigious diploma" (this is changing though).