As cuffing season continues strong (the season when people pair off) it\u2019s obvious that there is something worth considering with somewhat urgency \u2013 is there a lack of eligible men out there?<\/p>\n
The anecdotal evidence suggests so but the fact of the matter that we know that in terms of population quantities we should have an equal amount of attractive and appealing women as we do men.<\/p>\n
However, there is a perception that as you hit your 30s this starts to feel unreal, like eligible men are in short supply! But this is a perception commonly referred to as the Eligible Bachelor Paradox.<\/p>\n
The Paradox comes out of the idea of choosing partners and the ideas of bidders and it\u2019s a theory that comes out of game theory. The eligible bachelor paradox essentially pivots on the idea of that women choose who they marry through a proposal \u2013 they choose who to be with and then again they choose whether to be with them in a longterm way.<\/p>\n
This has become known as the \u2018choosiness\u2019 of females in terms of biology, but even with out going into biology, it\u2019s obvious that choosiness over potential mates is a female characteristic. Now, in terms of game theory, one tends to think of the subject studied as falling into two categories: \u2018strong bidders\u2019 and \u2018weak bidders\u2019. Strong bidders in this case are the ones who might be rated higher or have more chances of success, so in this scenario, women who either are attractive or have social clout that makes them an appealing mate. According to this, then \u2018strong bidders\u2019 will be more likely to get the better mate.<\/p>\n
But according to game theory it\u2019s not the \u2018strong bidders\u2019 that get what they want, but it\u2019s the \u2018decisive\u2019 bidder, the one that sticks with something and is convinced of its value. This, according the eligible bachelor theory would explain that all the good men are taken by decisive women as one approaches one\u2019s 30s., making even the \u2018strong bidders\u2019 have to date or frequent less appealing mates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As cuffing season continues strong (the season when people pair off) it\u2019s obvious that there is something worth considering with somewhat urgency \u2013 is there a lack of eligible men out there? The anecdotal evidence suggests so but the fact of the matter that we know that in terms of population quantities we should have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t