Thursday, March 6, 2008

Gender Economics

Speaking of supply/demand economics, there are many less guys at UGA than girls. The ratio is something like 4:6. The significance of this ratio is that most guys can have girlfriends, while some girls will inevitably be left out of the dating game. Essentially, among the 80% of students who are interested in having relationships (gender proportional for our purposes), this represents 48% of the total females and 32% of the total males. Seems like this would favor the guys and cause the bottom 16% of the females to remain single. Over time, the guys come away with more attractive girls than they would otherwise have (in a normal populations distribution).

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