SIO190: Dating Economy Inequality? with Kristi Winters
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Are women "creating an unequal dating environment for men?" Quillette recently published an article that made alarming claims about the dating economy on the basis of some online dating studies. Dr. Kristi Winters is here to bring some social science understanding to it and help us separate fact from fiction! Here's the NYT article I mention.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm your host Thomas Smith and I've got to Serious Only, this is episode 190. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm your host Thomas Smith, |
| 0:34.3 | and I've got an interview for you |
| 0:36.3 | with Christy Winters back on the show for the nth time. |
| 0:47.4 | N equals not enough, so I'm sure we'll have her back again more than more than a couple but not enough I think is the answer we are discussing this quillett |
| 0:52.1 | article I will link it in the show notes. It is called attraction inequality and the dating economy and it certainly |
| 1:00.1 | caught both our eyes or our sets of eyes, because it has a lot of talking points that are |
| 1:08.0 | used by insels and red pill people, but it also tries to put like a scholarly shine on it which is I guess that's a good |
| 1:18.8 | summary of Quilette in my opinion trying to put a scholarly shine on some of these more awful talking points around the internet. |
| 1:26.6 | And so I had her on to discuss the data they used and how it does or doesn't actually support what they're saying. |
| 1:35.8 | Okay, so let's hop on over to my interview with Christie Winters. It's Dr. Christie Winters back on the show. |
| 1:49.0 | It's Dr. Christie Winters back on the show. |
| 1:52.0 | Welcome back. Good to speak to you again how you doing oh my goodness it's it's |
| 1:56.0 | it's been quite a week and it's only Monday it's fine happy to be back on and talking with you about something that's very Fine. media so yes it's like both nerdy and not nerdy I guess why any any non nerdy |
| 2:15.7 | thing can be nerdy if you get enough data about it right that is true you can |
| 2:21.2 | make anything sexy or nerdy, I guess. Maybe there are lots of things. |
| 2:25.7 | Just how much stats are involved, that's all. All right. Well, yeah, there was a Quillett article, you know, |
| 2:31.9 | the esteemed publication, quillette.com, had an article. |
| 2:37.1 | This was in early March and it made right away my alarm bells kind of went off because the title is |
| 2:45.6 | attraction inequality and the dating economy and right away it it introduces and talks about the sort of 80-20 concept that I've seen referenced by Incells and it's in the, I think it's in the red pill documentary thing where it's like oh it turns out men are the real victims here |
| 3:07.9 | And that kind of thing now I don't know though it references some studies so I thought you know it'd be great to talk to you somebody |
| 3:16.0 | who is a social scientist who's way more literate in data and studies on on the |
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