I find these “takedown” videos uninformative and unpersuasive. Norm isn’t pointing out anything factually incorrect Destiny has said. (That would be interesting!) Instead he’s just bloviating about how well-read he is.
If that were true, one would expect men to be marrying women in lower classes. But men typically marry women of their own class.
Self report surveys also show women care more about the financial status of their partner.
Problem is that people misinterpret the statistic. Its simply a fraction of the population
Its NOT the chance youll find someone with those criteria
So even though theyre 7% of the population, 18-31 y.o. non-obese girls are extremely easy to find if ur in college
1/ So I've been re-reading Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind
Here are some thoughts on a study he cites (Wheatley & Haidt, 2005) in support of his Social Intuitionist Model 🧵