Why are we focusing so much on college degrees? "I definitely do not believe that college education makes someone a quality guy," Birger says. "What's really interesting is that the gender ratios are more lopsided in rural states like Montana (52 percent more college-educated women than men, ages 22 to 29) and West Virginia (61 percent more college-educated women than men) than in urban states like California and New York," he says. In the book, Birger points out that there are four young college-educated women for every three young college-educated men in our country. Aside from revealing a statistical "man shortage" (more on that below), Birger explains how college-educated men and woman often limit their own dating options, and (perhaps most surprisingly) says that the key to expanding your dating pool could be as simple as a trip to your local suburbs. Census Bureau and other social surveys in order to shed some light on dating challenges in America. In his new book, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, author and former Fortune and Money columnist Jon Birger crunches some numbers from the U.S.
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