Rob Henderson

religiosity, socioeconomic status, earnings, educational attainment, that we tend to pair with people who are relatively similar to ourselves. There was an interesting statistic. So this study was from 2005, which found that if your highest level of education is a high school diploma, then your likelihood of marrying someone with a college degree is 9%.

religiosity, socioeconomic status, earnings, educational attainment, that we tend to pair with people who are relatively similar to ourselves. There was an interesting statistic. So this study was from 2005, which found that if your highest level of education is a high school diploma, then your likelihood of marrying someone with a college degree is 9%.

But if your highest level of education is a college degree, then your likelihood of marrying a college graduate is 65%. I'd imagine that's actually higher today. It seems like assortative mating is sort of tilting even further and further in that direction. But what's interesting there is that...

But if your highest level of education is a college degree, then your likelihood of marrying a college graduate is 65%. I'd imagine that's actually higher today. It seems like assortative mating is sort of tilting even further and further in that direction. But what's interesting there is that...

But if your highest level of education is a college degree, then your likelihood of marrying a college graduate is 65%. I'd imagine that's actually higher today. It seems like assortative mating is sort of tilting even further and further in that direction. But what's interesting there is that...

The similarity, even though that that's sort of descriptively true, that is just the case that we tend to pair with people who are similar to ourselves. When you measure level of levels of similarity within romantic partners, similarity doesn't seem to predict relationship success.

The similarity, even though that that's sort of descriptively true, that is just the case that we tend to pair with people who are similar to ourselves. When you measure level of levels of similarity within romantic partners, similarity doesn't seem to predict relationship success.

The similarity, even though that that's sort of descriptively true, that is just the case that we tend to pair with people who are similar to ourselves. When you measure level of levels of similarity within romantic partners, similarity doesn't seem to predict relationship success.

And I was reading that paper and my interpretation of this is probably that similarity is necessary, but not sufficient for a long term committed relationship.

And I was reading that paper and my interpretation of this is probably that similarity is necessary, but not sufficient for a long term committed relationship.

And I was reading that paper and my interpretation of this is probably that similarity is necessary, but not sufficient for a long term committed relationship.

Yeah. And there's that issue of range restriction where if you're only looking at couples, then by definition, most of them are already pretty similar. And so does that extra similarity help? Probably not. There's probably that threshold that's sort of necessary.

Yeah. And there's that issue of range restriction where if you're only looking at couples, then by definition, most of them are already pretty similar. And so does that extra similarity help? Probably not. There's probably that threshold that's sort of necessary.

Yeah. And there's that issue of range restriction where if you're only looking at couples, then by definition, most of them are already pretty similar. And so does that extra similarity help? Probably not. There's probably that threshold that's sort of necessary.

Yeah. Well, well, the personality thing is interesting in that, um, one thing that shocked me when I was looking at the personality research and similarities in couples is that the correlations are remarkably small. They vary around sort of 0.1, 0.2, statistically significant that if you're open, your partner that you tend to pair with will be a little bit more open than average.

Yeah. Well, well, the personality thing is interesting in that, um, one thing that shocked me when I was looking at the personality research and similarities in couples is that the correlations are remarkably small. They vary around sort of 0.1, 0.2, statistically significant that if you're open, your partner that you tend to pair with will be a little bit more open than average.

Yeah. Well, well, the personality thing is interesting in that, um, one thing that shocked me when I was looking at the personality research and similarities in couples is that the correlations are remarkably small. They vary around sort of 0.1, 0.2, statistically significant that if you're open, your partner that you tend to pair with will be a little bit more open than average.

Same with these other personality traits. Uh, one that's a bit higher than the others that I saw was for neuroticism, which is about 0.2, 0.22, somewhere in that, in that realm. Um,

Same with these other personality traits. Uh, one that's a bit higher than the others that I saw was for neuroticism, which is about 0.2, 0.22, somewhere in that, in that realm. Um,

Same with these other personality traits. Uh, one that's a bit higher than the others that I saw was for neuroticism, which is about 0.2, 0.22, somewhere in that, in that realm. Um,