No eligible men? A news report quotes a sociologist as saying that for every 233 unmarried women in their 40s in the United States, there are only 100 unmarried men in their 40s. These numbers point to an unpleasant social situation for women of that age. Are the numbers plausible? (Optional: The Statistical Abstract of the United States has a table titled “Marital status of the population by age and sex” that gives the actual counts.)