In regards to dating in college, Birger said, “College campuses tend to be semi self-contained dating pools.” It gives college-educated men an incentive not to settle down because every year their dating pool gets better.” “The lopsided numbers infantilize men to delay settling down and play the field. “It’s not just a statistical problem for women,” said Birger. She thought that they had a future together, but he broke up with her because he was not ready to settle down.īirger and his wife would occasionally play matchmaker, but they stopped when they reached their 30s and they only had single female friends. He mentioned a friend, Sarah, who was in her late 30s and dating a forty-five-year-old man for about two years. “They had stories and dating histories that made little sense to me,” Birger told The Fordham Ram. He details that both staffs were disproportionately made up of women, and most male employees were in serious relationships or married, like him. It is just that there are not enough men out there.īirger, who was a writer at Fortune and Money magazines, was inspired to write a numbers-related dating guide while working at these magazines and interacting with his female co-workers. If you are a woman and feel like your life is depicted in the movie He’s Just Not That Into You (minus guys who look like Ben Affleck and Bradley Cooper), you are mistaken.
“Date-Onomics” by Jon Birger uses demographics, statistics and number-crunching to analyze the dating game for 20 or 30-somethings.
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