Fnord wrote:
If money is not important in dating, then how many women date homeless men?
TBH, I think it's somewhat more complicated. It is a factor, but unless you're fairly far out on the distribution, it's not a crucial factor. That being said, regardless of where you are on the income distribution, for women that care about money, making more than they are relative seems to be more important than in terms of absolute income.
Also, keep in mind that as women get into their 30s, if they haven't already found somebody, they're going to be stuck with the decision about marrying down or going without entirely. And with the number of women graduating college in the US being approximately double the number of men, there's going to be a fair number that have to marry down just to find anybody at all.
That being said, there are limits, hence why you don't see women flocking to date homeless men. And why rich men have to be careful about the sort of women they're attracting.