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Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The Relationship Between Education and Beauty

If everyone got married, then by definition, on average, marriages would in relative terms be educationally equal. On average, husbands and wives would have the same education. But in the top 50% of the distribution, husbands would on average be more educated than their wives. At the bottom half, husbands wouldon average be less educated. Assume that education and beauty aren't especially correlated. Then we expect women at any given tier of beauty to be about 50th percentile for education. So the top half of the male educational distribution is married to,. on average, 50th percentile women, who they aren't ranked.

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