doesn't this post prove hypergamy actually exists and that redpillers are actually right?

Half-Ice-Half-Fire · 2021-08-13T04:34:36+00:00

Note: the dataset this is based on, the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, is a sample of people who graduated high school in Wisconsin in 1957. That is, this is about the lives of white midwesterners in their 80s.

The study is very outdated, we would need a much newer study and even then this doesn’t prove RPs bs “hypergamy”.

RedPillDetox · 2021-08-13T08:24:06+00:00

No, it doesn't because a) the evidence is correlational meaning that i can always come up with alternative explanations for the results. Ex.: I could argue that men with higher wages are more likely to be married because men only feel comfortable enough to marry if they make more than their SO due to sexism, or that women with higher rages become less dependent of men and chose not to marry; b) Hypergamy is much more than "marrying up" and often throws around a lot of fabrications like how women don't actually love men that aren't top 20%, or that make less than them, how being dominant or abusive actually attracts your SO, etc - These fabrications can't be accepted based on that paper alone; c) Hypergamy definitions are often sloppy and intellectualy flexible, so if it can't be conviniently defined can't be conviniently proven or disproven. If a paper showed that men with higher wages are less likely to marry, and women with higer wages are more likely to marry then i'm quite sure TRPers would flip this to fit their narrative, saying that men that make more money don't get married because they are laying multiple women short term and that women who make more money get married because if they are making more money is because they are older, post wall, hence chose to marry only at a later age after fucking alphas in their youth or something.

With this said, i don't think it would be a schoker if women, on statistical AVERAGE would have a PREFERENCE to marry a man that makes more than them. Still, this isn't really "hypergamy" the way that TRP puts it nor means that a lot of their fabrications are true.

zoemondo · 2021-08-13T04:23:54+00:00

The article is behind a paywall for me.

It's not enough to just point out the statistics. To prove hypergamy you'd have to provide the reasoning for said statistics and some sort of evidence to back that up.

Title	doesn't this post prove hypergamy actually exists and that redpillers are actually right?
Author	hopefulcynic-
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Date	August 13, 2021 4:10 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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