Quite honestly straight off, I can tell you that this isn't true
at all. Unless you're a total swine, Singapore guys do not
experience any disadvantage when it comes to attracting local
girls. I was attached twice myself in Uni and they both were local
girls.
Neither do I see my male Singaporean peers have any problem getting
hitched to local girls. At least, not based on reasons relating to
race.
That aside, let me just comment on certain things about this
"study". Somebody has already pointed out one issue which is the
composition of the 500 girls. If the girls were all ang mohs, then it would explain the
high indication for caucasian males.
Moreover, I realise that very often the data for such on campus
research is done by asking friends or friends of friends to
participate. As a result, there is a stronger tendency for a group
of like-minded people giving results for this research. I'm not
saying all 500 participants think absolutely alike, but the
research may be more representative of a certain group within the
campus than all the students as a whole.
It doesn't help also that most of the time Singaporeans are very bo
chap about participating in this kind of ad-hoc things. Like I
mentioned, a lot of the Singaporeans are merely helping out a
friend. Otherwise, they'd only do it for free hello kitties or ECA
points. I realise foreigners and caucasian students in particular
are more enthusiastic when doing this kind of thing and they'll get
their friends to do it together all for the fun of it. Singaporeans
however will think twice about asking their friends to take part
unless it was their own research and academic points on the
line.
-to continue in another post-