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The College Majors Most Likely To Marry Each Other
schnell writes: The blog Priceonomics has published an analysis showing students in which college majors end up marrying another student with that same major. Religious studies (with 21% of students marrying another studying the same field) tops the list among all students, followed by general science. Perhaps unsurprising is that some majors with gender disparities show a high in-major marriage rate among the less represented group — for example, 39% of women engineering majors marry a fellow student in their field, while among men 43% studying nursing and 38% studying elementary education do likewise. The blog concludes that your choice of major may unwittingly decide your choice of spouse, and depending on how well that field is paid, your economic future.
Seems to be this is more related with the gender distribution in each major more than anything else.
Engineering and sciences have a high percentage of males vs females. Therefore is logical to think that any woman in that field has a lot of possible partners to choose from.
The backwards can be said about Nursery. Mainly a female oriented vocation, any male nurse will have a rather large pool to select a partner from.
Seems pretty obvious, I 'unno...
Because computer science classes are not actually 90% male.... the actual figure is closer to 80%, depending on the institution. I believe the actual average number of male graduates from computer science is 82% in the USA.
Of course, that also suggests that computer science is an exceedingly likely place for a single woman who is interested enough in the field to have something in common with most of her peers in class is also quite likely to also find a mate. The exact opposite can be said for men.
This is anecdotal, but almost all of the women I knew while I was taking computer science eventually hooked up with someone else in class before graduation. I do not know how permanent those relationships were after graduation, however.
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Most people I know started long term relationships with somebody they happen to spend time with, or that they are just nearby: same high school, same college, same circle of friends, same workplace. Study does not bring much information unless it is comparing likeliness of other situations like the ones I listed. Unfortunately I can only add anectodorial evidence. By the way, only a few ones were due to predatorial skills at night.
While many of your female co-students found a mate in the engineering class, and many of the male nursery students are now probably married to a nurse.
At least there'd certainly be more potential to turn your spouse into a "hot babe" (provided she's yearning to become part of your art). ;-}
This cannot stand. Two people with the same major marrying each other is completely against my just-now-made-up religion. It says that Frank (my just-made-up religions version of god) specifically wrote that "Thou shalt not lie with a fellow computer science major as you would with a psychology major".
The government needs to make a constitutional amendment to prevent people of the same major from marrying each other. After all, if we let two people with the same major marry, we're on a slippery slope to marrying dolphins with snack cakes. And then where will it end?
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People with confluent majors end up working side by side in the field.
I'm guessing it has something to do with that 80 some odd hours a week that a number of CS workers are forced into. When you have to spend 80% of your waking hours working, it kind of limits your dating pool.
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The divorce rates for marrying in your major would be a much more interesting study. I would think engineering and CS would top that list.
Engineers have one of the lowest divorce rates. As an engineer married to another engineer, I believe there is a big benefit to having a spouse that has been trained to use logic and systematically solve problems. We settle most of our arguments by drawing Venn diagrams on a whiteboard. Having two six digit salaries helps too.
Same here. We think and solve problems similarly, so there isn't much "talking past each other" when we disagree. If a problem can be reasoned through, we usually come to agreement. If it's squishier, we both sort of recognize that it's probably not worth fighting to the death over. Money and worry about unemployment is never a problem, so we don't fight over it or nitpick how it's spent (in fact, we each have a mix of private and shared accounts after 10 years of marriage, and we each handle a subset of the household financees without much oversight from the other). Beyond that I suppose everything else is pretty normal, but those are two big issues that cause a lot of relationship trouble that work out to a pretty strong built-in advantage for us.
We're both pretty mellow people who don't usually get wound up about stuff that's not really important, but I'm not sure if that's just who we are or if it's associated with how we were educated and how we work. There seem to be certain types of people who genuinely get bored and need a certain amount of drama in their human interactions and will create it if it's not there. Those people seem to be less common in engineering, although I don't have a lot to quantify or support that. Those people are usually not fun to be around and seem like they'd be a nightmare to be married to.
An interesting anagram of "BANACH TARSKI" is "BANACH TARSKI BANACH TARSKI"
Come on Slashdot! This article should be titled "Most Incestuous Majors".