{"id":12036,"date":"2015-01-26T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:24:16","slug":"the-average-age-gap-within-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-average-age-gap-within-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"The Average Age Gap Within Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/012615_1220_TheAverageA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mona Chalabi looked into the average age difference within couples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Males are 2.3 years older than the female in the average heterosexual coupling.<\/li>\n<li>In 23% of couples the female is older than the male.<\/li>\n<li>While there are no official statistics, data from Facebook indicates that in homosexual relationships the average age difference increases as the couples get older.<\/li>\n<li>This is true of heterosexual relationships as well, although the effect is not as big.<\/li>\n<li>For example, for a couple who has an average age of 20, the average age gap is three years for homosexual relationships, and two for heterosexual ones.<\/li>\n<li>By the time the average age of a couple hits 50, the age gap averages around seven for homosexual couples and five for heterosexual ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See a chart showing the correlation, and read more details <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/whats-the-average-age-difference-in-a-couple\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/whats-the-average-age-difference-in-a-couple\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mona Chalabi looked into the average age difference within couples: Males are 2.3 years older than the female in the average heterosexual coupling. In 23% of couples the female is older than the male. While there are no official statistics, data from Facebook indicates that in homosexual relationships the average age difference increases as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/012615_1220_TheAverageA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12039,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions\/12039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}