Date-onomics Quotes

“A 2013 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that 15 percent of school-age boys had received an ADHD diagnosis (versus just 7 percent for girls), a diagnosis rate so over the top that some researchers believe simple immaturity is now being misdiagnosed as ADHD.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“The situation becomes even more fraught for women in their late thirties and forties whose biological clocks are ticking. Donovan told me that women at such gatherings often try to get to eligible men they want to meet early on, lest someone else get to them first and make a connection. On the rare instance when a new single guy enters the room, Donovan described an 'almost palpable, heightened state of awareness' among the women. They know - even if they're loath to admit it - 'that a competition has just begun”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women. That’s 38 percent more men than women—essentially New York City in reverse.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“I’ve dated all over the country—you know, the life of a minor league ballplayer—and I can tell you that the best place for guys by far is New York. My god, it’s not even close.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“In 2012, 34 percent more women than men graduated from four-year colleges, and this gaping gender gap in college education spilled over into the post-college dating pool long ago.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“The starting point for this line of thinking is usually an infamous Newsweek cover story published in 1986. The article, titled “The Marriage Crunch,” contained the dubious claim that a single, college-educated woman over 40 was “more likely to be killed by a terrorist” than to find a husband.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“I’ve also wondered why so many divorced men become more desirable in their forties than they had ever been in their late twenties—despite now having less hair, bigger guts, and, in some cases, incomes shrunk by alimony and child support.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“According to the Census Bureau, there are 12,715,896 non-college-educated men in the U.S. age 22 to 29 versus 11,261,287 such women. And the gender gap is even wider among those who are single—9,415,116 men versus 7,088,033 women.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“For an engineer in Silicon Valley, your day is something like this,” said 26-year-old tech entrepreneur Henry Pasternack.* “You get on a bus in the morning, and there are no women. You work in a department in which there are twenty men and one woman. You go to lunch, and there are some women—maybe they work in sales and marketing—but they’re all talking either to each other or to the CEO . . . For guys in tech, there’s”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“No, the idea of a college is to educate people,” Sandler told me. “When you choose between people to come to the college, you choose the people who are most likely to benefit from it.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“Robert M. Solow,” they wrote, “the Nobel Prize winner for his pioneering work on the theory of economic growth, once said, ‘Everything reminds Milton [Friedman] of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.’ Well, Solow might have missed something economically significant by not linking sex with economic growth.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“At some point, college-educated women will stop flocking to New York City once they discover, much as Lauren Kay did, that the city’s dating game is rigged against them.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

“They know—even if they are loath to admit it—“that a competition has just begun,” because good single guys are so hard to come by.”
― Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game