Sunday, December 04, 2005

Where are the Missing Men?

They're in college, according to an analysis at Girl in the Locker Room.

The theme that men aren't going to college has seemed a bit suspicious to me all along. Assuming Girl's reporting is accurate, more men and women are going to college than ever before, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of the college-aged. It's just that women have really increased their percentage of attendance, wherewas men have only somewhat increased it.

This is exactly the same argument that I tend to use in fighting with economically illiterate leftists - it doesn't matter that Group A's income is growing faster than Group B's, if both A and B are both making real improvements. Envy is stupid; equity is unattainable; improvement is the real metric.

(H/T Instapundit.)

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