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Part of the problem is that each profession isn't scaled to how many people are in it. "47-5031 Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters" had a total employment of 7,970 in 2012, but there were 1,353,020 people employed as "25-2021 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education"

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes475031.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252021.htm

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Yeah it says male software developers are most likely to marry female teachers or administrative assistants, like practically every other majority-male profession. Would be more interesting to show trends relative to males in others professions rather than in absolute numbers.

(edit: replace 'male' with 'majority-male' as I didn't mean to sound 1950s, just meant the left side of the chart)

Yeah, that makes the whole thing meaningless if you ask me. Well, maybe not meaningless... I supposed I can say... as an X, I'm most likely to marry an elementary school teacher. But if I meet an explosive worker, this will not tell me how likely I am to marry them... which I think is more interesting.

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