The question is what tradeoffs you’d be willing to make in other virtues in order to find a women “in the cluster” who’s available and willing to date you. A young, beautiful, friendly, ethical, successful etc. STEM-oriented woman would be, according to these ideas, in high demand as a dating or marriage partner.
We might also consider that the STEM field, unlike many others, notoriously does not select for traits like looks, wit, humor, kindness, charisma, etc. It selects for intelligence, conscientiousness, and other traits relevant to science, engineering and math. If you’re looking more for a mate than a colleague when you go on dates, you might find the things one conventionally desires in a mate unusually enriched dating outside “the cluster,” where those traits are actively selected for in for example the service industry, and perhaps also being unusually depleted among available partners inside “the cluster” since being good at STEM is probably an attractive trait for people who are also into STEM.
The question is what tradeoffs you’d be willing to make in other virtues in order to find a women “in the cluster” who’s available and willing to date you. A young, beautiful, friendly, ethical, successful etc. STEM-oriented woman would be, according to these ideas, in high demand as a dating or marriage partner.
We might also consider that the STEM field, unlike many others, notoriously does not select for traits like looks, wit, humor, kindness, charisma, etc. It selects for intelligence, conscientiousness, and other traits relevant to science, engineering and math. If you’re looking more for a mate than a colleague when you go on dates, you might find the things one conventionally desires in a mate unusually enriched dating outside “the cluster,” where those traits are actively selected for in for example the service industry, and perhaps also being unusually depleted among available partners inside “the cluster” since being good at STEM is probably an attractive trait for people who are also into STEM.