A glimpse at Modern Racism in dating?
Some data from the United States:
steve's alternative recursion
stuff from my brainmarriage makes you worse?
the obvious and probably correct interpretation is that single men feel a benefit in competing, to proving themselves, while married ones do not.
Interesting that the better tennis players seem more likely to get married by this data…
regardless , i imagine the results would be orders of magnitude more significant if it was done on women.
via http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/tennis%20players.pdf