PEOPLE RESPOND TO INCENTIVES: It’s Not Your Imagination, Single Women: There Literally Aren’t Enough Men Out There.

There simply aren’t enough college-educated men to go around. For every four college-educated women in my generation, there are three college-educated men. The result? What Birger calls a “musical chairs” of the heart: As the men pair off with partners, unpartnered straight women are left with fewer and fewer options—and millions of them are eventually left with no options at all.

Huh. Why would men be avoiding college? I mean, really, why?