Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Degrees of Connection: Examining the Relationships Among College Majors, Marriage, and Spouse Selection - Research in Higher Education

Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival

Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 2h

STEM majors tend to have spouses who majored in other STEM fields, amplifying income inequality across married couples
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This study examines how college majors are related to marital outcomes through homogamy based on college attainment and fields of study. Grounded in theories of educational assortative mating, opportu...

link.springer.com

2 3

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 2h

... may i request the reference

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 4h

i did zealously attend the social sciences and humanities lectures and sessions bc i was there for the storytelling. except for one lecture on nietzsche at the tail end of a class on christianity and classical culture bc i couldn't be arsed.

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 4h

there's a new spate of NYT articles and letters about harvard undergraduates' lack of lecture attendance. as a maths undergrad i don't think me attending lectures more would have helped anybody.

1 3

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 5h

the fact that the young republicans are capped at 40 is hilarious

3

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 5h

i think the better comparison here is within the Tory party, no? i'd be surprised if any Tory frontbench is at least 25% former councillors.

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 5h

truly whoever dislikes tofu for a non medical reason will not see the kingdom of heaven

1 2

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 6h

idk if this is sth that's always been underfunded at the IRS or sth new but i sent sth to them on 8 August and just received this past week a letter saying they received it on 29 September

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 7h

instagram stop showing me candidates for the LSE tories officer elections

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

i'm too young for this meme

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

this trend (crying and claiming your dad did sth heinous or sth heinous happened and then he sent you an AI video announcing it to you) is one of the weirder AI trends on the short form video sites, i think the OG one was the dad killing a hamster in the dishwasher and making an AI hamster vid?

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

i still think number theory or combinatorics is the right set-up for teaching proofs in high school bc there's just a lot more kinds of proofs you have to learn to handle there i think. (ofc linear algebra can be used for those areas! but generally a linear algebra class is kind of limited)

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

i guess 'front door' would be landing directly in the shadow cabinet from outside politics in this metaphor? (keir starmer?)

4

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

it's weird bc the passage also contains the phrase 'no shortcuts' so clearly they have a sense of that!

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

at princeton i think learning proofwriting for maths majors is just part of the first year sequence (which is linalg, a little bit of multivariable calc, a little bit of topology, a little bit of differential geometry) but they do teach a number theory proof course for those not intending to major

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

what is a 'proof class'? the alternative choices for learning proofs (assuming real analysis is out of the runnint) are uhh geometry and number theory i guess?

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

the hustle pages are posting theresa may inspo content now

9 14 37

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

germany needs to raise its threshold for the european elections what do you mean there's a gen Z german MEP with bleach blonde hair and a mustache

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

duolingo has invented another weird and desperate way to try to get free users to become paying customers, which normally i would be happy to do except i think they barely have any permanent paid staff so i'll just keep lengthening my 1840 day streak by 'watching' adverts

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

if i end up not in academia i'm not keeping it, if i end up in academia ig i have to keep it

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

phan is my actual real vietnamese surname so this is just weird

1 3

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

what's justin trudeau and katy perry's ship name

2 2

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

anyway. i think technological change will win this round too tbh. sucks to be us.