Xenoblade
Chronicles is a critically acclaimed game. I haven’t had a chance to play it,
but I have enjoyed its music on Youtube very much. Sunday night I was listening
to a song call “On the Fallen Arm.” The music is simple and touching, like sea
rolling toward the cliff, the flushing water sparkling in daylight.
An MSN
message box popped out. It was the former advisor of my master thesis. He
hinted me I could get fired if I don't join his circle and serve him. Then he
asked me a question, a question with no easy answer. I have known him for a
long time. His question was actually a quest. And I expect there will be more
and more quests from him after I become an assistant professor. To avoid the
blog to be found by him, I express his quest in different ways. Today I am more
than happy to share it on the web because I get no benefit by hiding it.
Quest: Find
the ratio of households with asymmetric education in the US.
The data I
use is from the family dataset in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics 2009.
After deleting single families, there are approximately 4300 married or
cohabited households in the sample. I categorized the level of education into
five categories, from lower than high school to PhD/Medical/Law. Summing up all
households with wife and husbands' education in different categories and
dividing the summed value by the sample size.
Quest
Completed!
Among all
samples, 47 percent of households have asymmetric education, 26 percent of men
have wives with education higher, and 20 percent of women have husbands with
education higher. The results might be common in the US, but very likely to be
opposite to the cases in many Asian countries, where it is supposed to that a
woman should marry a man taller, wealthier and well-educated.
It is sad I
am from a culture driven largely by materials, and the spirit counts so
minimal. I think should play Xenoblade Chronicles to imagine how good it is for
a man to run freely around the great plain, the raining beach, the gorges
valley.
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