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11 April 2008

Tyleru treba izgovor

Teorija igara kaže da lepe žene uglavnom završe sa ispod prosečnim muškarcima (izgled, prihod) jer im manje atraktivne a odlučnije suparnice uzimaju bolje primerke. Atraktivne žene, svesne svoga izgleda, smatraju da nije potrebno da se previše trude, što koristi konkurencija koja kupi najbolje primerke. Tyler Cowen se ne slaže, i misli da atraktivne žene više cene prednosti vanbračnog života.

3 comments:

ian said...

interesantna tema

ali nije samo stvar u zenama vec i u nama. ja na primer izbegavam one koje su lepse i pametnije i vise volim prosecnije ili tako nesto, znate vec na sta mislim... one se jednostavno vise trude i bolje su u mnogim stvarima i pristupacnije su... ko ce da se bakce sa onim prvim...

Anonymous said...

Evo ja cu.

ian said...

Evo i jos nekih objasnjenja sa bloga koja su mi se cinila najinteresantnijim

OK, Tyler, that's a possible rationale. I think it's swamped by the well-understood rationale that distinguishes "quality" between the sexes.

Quality man: competent
Quality woman: pretty

These are admittedly very simplified, as is the constraint that a woman will not marry a man who is less competent than she, but the implications are clear.

Just run the clock. A man's competence steadily increases with age. A woman's prettiness peaks in her late teens, then gradually declines. The most competent men and prettiest women tend to get attached earliest. For the man who holds out, his choices expand as his competence grows since he will gladly marry a pretty girl who is either younger or older than he. For the competent women, her choices shrink, both because she is competing for competent men whose choices are expanding with age, and because her own attractiveness is declining with age.

As oversimplified as this explanation is, it remains the most powerful one I've come across.

i jos jedan

The biggest may be that the pool of women who want to get married is larger than the pool of men who want to get married. Divorce is costly and the milk is free.

Many women are not thinking of marriage in their 20's. I know very attractive, intelligent, single women who complain about how there are no men. But eligible peers who are looking for marriage pass them over because they spend their time "fooling around" with men who have similar attitudes. It's the merry-go-round method of dating: hook up with lots of people and eventually you meet one you want to marry. Women who purposefully set out to find an eligible man have different attitudes and behavior.