yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10/25/2008
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You may recall this chart, showing which cities have a surplus of single men and which have a surplus of single women, making the rounds on the tubes a while back:
An interesting result. But now via Ezra Klein, a more interesting result — an interactive map of the same data that ...
xoxosoma.com - 10/23/2008
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xoxosoma.com —
Once upon a time there was a map
of singles in major areas across the United States...
. "A quarter million extra single ladies in New York City!" it touted, "Hundreds of thousands of unattached men on the West Coast!" leaving in its wake: Your odds ...
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The New, Interactive Singles Map. Or, Looking for Love ...
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Those Poor Straight Single Guys
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Yglesias points me to some new manipulatable maps on gender disparity among singles. Among the young, there are more single men. Ezra Klein explains why: On the young end of the spectrum, single men outnumber single women just about everywhere. If you hold the ages to 20-34, DC, for instance, has 27 extra single men for every 1,000 people. Shift the slider so it tracks folks from age 45 to 60, and DC has 48 more single women for every 1,000 folks. The reason for this, basically, is that women marry younger. About 1/3rd of ...
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