Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Better Bachelor" channel.

"Wasn't Tinder supposed to be for hook-ups and nothing more?" They'd probably say it's for all kinds of dating though the function in practice probably favors more shallow and looks-based stuff.
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But at least she became better in the end.
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@LotusHart01 : "How when the divorce rates are so high?" Presumably it's the happier marriages that tend to survive and the unhappy ones don't.
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@maam-yj8ph : I'm pretty sure Franklin would have received the Nobel prize alongside Francis and Crick had she lived long enough.
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"designing the algorithm around women" I don't think Tinder's algorithm is somehow designed with women in mind. It's just the kind of app that tends towards hookups and focusing on looks which means there's an oversupply of men and an undersupply of women. It's mostly due to human nature and there isn't an easy way to avoid that with just algorithm design.
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@patrickrannou1278 "But even if you changed the ratio to 10% guys and 90% girls, this would not solve anythimg" I would bet that with that kind of ratio a great majority of guys would have far easier time.
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"boys blow girls away ever after" That's an exaggeration. The difference in the mean is fairly modest. Furthermore, when IQ scores are broken down into separate skills, it's seen that the difference is mostly explained by men being ahead on average in visual/spatial ability with not much difference in mean in other areas. (Variance is higher for men in all areas to my knowledge.)
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Statistically being married improves one's happiness.
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@LotusHart01 : "You don’t seem to have a valid defense of your initial claim that married people are happier?" Here is one paper on the benefits of marriage (which include also physical health). Note that the positive effect is in fact larger for men than for women. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11199-011-9968-6 Of course, this is just a correlation which doesn't necessarily mean a causal relationship but it certainly points to that direction. "Does it improve the happiness of the 50% divorcees?" I don't know if the mentioned effects of marriage during the marriage are different for those marriages that end in divorce relative to those that last. If I had to guess I'd say that probably even those marriages that end in divorce provide a benefit (on average) for at least part of the duration of the marriage. But once the difficulties that end in divorce begin it might be that would not have been any more benefit to continuing. This is just speculation though. (I'm not meaning to imply that everyone should seek marriage. If you think you wouldn't be happy if married, that might be an indication that you're different from the average person in this respect.)
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Note about the currency. 1 US Dollar = 360 Nigerian Naira (roughly) so those 50k and 30k amounts are not that large (in nominal terms).
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And that "multi million naira company" doesn't sound all that impressive even for Nigerian income levels.
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@hitfan2000 "the problem is that single men far outnumber single women (in the under 40 category)" It's mathematically impossible for single men to "far" outnumber single women. There are slightly more men born than women but the difference isn't that large and probably isn't the reason why men have it harder on e.g. dating apps. And on average women might have older partners more often than the other way around and some such pairs straddle your cutoff of 40 but I don't think that effect is so large either. I think a much bigger part of the reason is that men are, or at least want to be, more promiscuous than women. (Well, I'm simplifying a bit here but I'm sure you get what I mean.)
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@hitfan2000 "So if a 20 year old woman is in a long term relationship with a 30 year old man..." This age difference seems higher than average and this particular example wouldn't create imbalance in the "up to 40" group you used in your previous comment since both still fall within that group. "You might believe that sex ratios are a non-factor, but the dating apps don't lie." I'm fairly confident that even if the sex ratio was 50/50 that would only slightly mitigate the difference of the experience of men and women on dating apps. Most of the same dynamic would remain due to the different behaviour of the sexes. "The millions of young men in China who have no hope of ever finding a wife bears this out." The sex ratio in China is far more skewed than in e.g. North America or Europe. This video didn't really touch on dating app experience in China so I'm not focusing on that.
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@hitfan2000 I'm fairly sure the difference in the behaviour between men and women is bigger than that 3%-point excess (over 50/50 split). Based on a short googling men haven't had it that easy on Tinder in Russia, unless one is good-looking. This is despite Russia having excess of women (largely due to men having a dramatically lower life expectancy than women) unless one is good looking.
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@asdf-fl1ib Did you mean to reply to me or hitfan2000? You tagged me but you're quoting something that hitfan2000 wrote.
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@asdf-fl1ib "You used the quote, in post." Yeah, I quoted him (hitfan2000) to reply to him. Now it's a bit unclear to me whether you're commenting on something I wrote or only on what he wrote.
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@joshuatoms7664 : The population mean is (by definition) 100 and the means for men and women are quite close to it. If by your logic the couple point difference in the mean is negligible.
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Note about the language. English is the official language of Nigeria and has millions of native speakers there, though I think languages like Hausa have more native speakers there. Therefore it's not that unlikely that English is this woman's first language.
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0:30 "this is about controlling you" That makes no sense. I mean, this may be bad policy due to being too ineffective and/or too harmful. I'm not arguing for this measure but it seems unlikely that the "true motive" for it is "controlling people's lives" or whatever. 3:20 "and then you can see why I kind of say I think it's more about control" But at no point can I see that (even if this bit of policy might still be a mistake).
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"The gray matter between the ears is still female." To my knowledge, certain features of brain anatomy can be observed to correlate with being transgender, so it might be that their brain was more "male-like" than that of the average cis-woman. Secondly, hormone replacement therapy is likely going to have some cognitive effects as well, like the "impatience" example in the article shows.
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@Bud_Studly I'm not making a judgment on what counts as "defective". Nonetheless, "the gray matter between the ears" was probably at least different from the average female.
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