Reply To: Do we KNOW there is a “shidduch crisis”?

I don’t think it’s that bad. Not sure why web bad is an issue but voluntary/self selected can lead to representativeness issues. I think they are trying to get around that by asking for family members info and treating each family member as separate data points. I’m not sure they are doing this but in theory they can also just not count the responder and just count the family members. There are also statistical methods I assume they know about that can be used to increase representativeness for potentially biased samples such as weighting by known parameters etc. if you are interested you can probably email them to ask for specific methods. I think this is an imperfect but decent start and am kind of excited about this: I think this is the first time people are even trying to get real data about this subject