Reply To: Statistician Dr. Charlie Hall's analysis of the marital age gap data

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Lior – Where are you looking in the report? It seems to me that he is defining OTD as leaving the day school system before 12th grade.

Do you know any Shadchanim who would be willing to confirm or deny your observation about the relative number of men vs. women who are trying to get married? It should be quick and easy to come up with some informal counts for each age or age group. If you are correct that 15% of the men aren’t getting married, then the real problem would be that the unmarried men (and probably women too) need relationship counseling. Putting men in the Parsha earlier could actually make the problem worse since the more selfish and immature the guy is, the harder it is to create a relationship with him. And after he has tried and failed to create a relationship over and over again, he will give up. I know that having relationship counselors instead of Shadchanim is kind of radical but if the problem is the way you describe it, I don’t know of another solution.