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As the number of highly educated women has increased in recent decades, the chances of "marrying up" have increased significantly for men and decreased for women, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas sociologist.
"The pattern of marriage and its economic consequences have changed over time," said lead author ChangHwan Kim, associate professor of sociology. "Now women are more likely to get married to a less-educated man. What is the consequence of this?"
Kim's co-authored the study with Arthur Sakamoto of Texas A&M University, and the journal Demography recently published their findings. They examined gender-specific changes in the total financial return to education among people of prime working ages, 35 to 44 years old, using U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 and the 2009-2011 American Community Survey.
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ChangHwan Kim, Arthur Sakamoto. Women's Progress for Men's Gain? Gender-Specific Changes in the Return to Education as Measured by Family Standard of Living, 1990 to 2009–2011. Demography, 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0601-3
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:29PM (4 children)
Wait 15 minutes after the story is posted. Put a reasonable comment. Have the prepared troll comment ready. Switch it at 4 minutes and 45 seconds to account for lag. Watch some people reply or up mod your reasonable comment which is now gone.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:37PM
Just have the old Green Site "are you sure you want to comment; doing this will undo moderation?" check, but for editing your comments. If you've already been modded, editing wipes mods.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:37PM (2 children)
1) Sites like Reddit allow editing, and don't seem to have that much trouble with this.
2) You could make it so the original comment cannot be removed or edited, and instead you can only append to it (which is all I wanted to do in my comment above).
3) You could also have a "flag" option to flag people doing this, and then the moderators can look into the edit history and ban anyone who does this.
Personally I think #2 would be the simplest answer. On other sites like Reddit, people already do just this even though they could do much more; they put "EDIT: blah blah blah" at the end of the comment to show the comment has been changed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @09:39AM (1 child)
4) You could take your time, preview your comment, and add supporting information once you see it lacking some upon preview.
(And then end up on the second page of comments with no views, mods, or replies.)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday September 01 2017, @04:16AM
Sure, I'll do that just as soon as everyone removes the Backspace key from their keyboards, and changes all their software so that there's no "undo" function anywhere.
You're right about the timing issue too, but honestly I think the idea of not being able to edit things runs counter to one of the major reasons we switched from using typewriters and such to using computers in the first place.