Over at Page 3.14, Katherine highlights a Psychology Today article about the different approaches young men and women have to dating. It’s more or less what you expect, but for one eye-popping sentence (emphasis added):
[New Mexico psychology professor Geoffrey] Miller believes boys actually overestimate their mate value during adolescence, and none more so than jocks. “Young men who were captains of the football team graduate thinking they’re God’s gift to women, and women respond, ‘I’m interested in corporate attorneys and well-cited professors. Who the hell are you?’ “
Yeah, I really noticed that dynamic, back in the day. I never would’ve gotten Kate to marry me without a first-author Science paper…