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Probable Predictors of Involuntary Singlehood(sciencedirect.com)
21 points by domofutu 13 hours ago | 1 comments
moomin 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I’ve just skimmed the abstract and I’ll mention the bit I found unobvious: in men, having children from a previous relationship showed as a net positive. One possibility is that this is a proxy variable for “has been able to sustain a relationship for an extended period of time”.

They also found that self-perception of some variables matters, but having not read the entire paper, it’s not clear if they attempted to measure external perception of the same variables. I’m guessing they didn’t, since BMI also is quoted as a factor.

Other things strike me as blindingly obvious: e.g. being choosier leads to being single longer. I’d argue that’s pretty much true by definition.