{"id":2681,"date":"2008-06-08T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T17:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/06\/08\/college-marriage-statistics\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T17:08:35","slug":"college-marriage-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/06\/08\/college-marriage-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"College Marriage Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got back from my 15th college reunion weekend earlier today, and I’ve spent the afternoon dozing off in front of European championship soccer and enjoying sweet, sweet central air conditioning. I had a great time, but didn’t get a whole lot of sleep. Also, ordering Colonial Pizza<\/a> at 1am continues to not be as good an idea as it seems at the time.<\/p>\n

As a part of the cult festivities, there was a run-down of the various accomplishments of the class (slightly more doctors than lawyers, almost as many children as members of the class), which included the statistic that 97 of the 550-ish members of the class of 1993 are married to other Williams alumni, and that 32 of those 97 are married to other members of our class (that is, 16 couples).<\/p>\n

Like a lot of context-free statistics, though, I’m not really sure what that means. 17.6% of the class marrying within the college seems like a large number (it’s certainly higher than the fraction among my immediate circle of friends), but then “We met in college” is one of the more common relationship stories out there, so it might be fairly average. And given the reputation of some religiously-affiliated schools as marriage markets, it might even be relatively low.<\/p>\n

This seems like the sort of thing that somebody ought to have studied, but I’m not sure howI would find that information, other than by throwing it out to the Internet. So, Internet, is that figure a clear indicator of the cultishness of Williams alumni, or just a meaningless statistic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got back from my 15th college reunion weekend earlier today, and I’ve spent the afternoon dozing off in front of European championship soccer and enjoying sweet, sweet central air conditioning. I had a great time, but didn’t get a whole lot of sleep. Also, ordering Colonial Pizza at 1am continues to not be as… Continue reading College Marriage Statistics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}