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DunningKruger · 61-69, M
I don't think it's that high. I think people stayed in bad marriages once upon a time because they didn't have good options for getting out of them, so the rate of people remaining married was artificially increased. The introduction of no-fault divorce allowed people to look at their situation and do something about it.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@DunningKruger 75%
DunningKruger · 61-69, M
@SteelHands 39%
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@DunningKruger I've done my research and not easily misled by the myriad ways that statistics are analyzed.
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DunningKruger · 61-69, M
@SteelHands Please show your work. I've never seen any place list statistics that high.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@DunningKruger I'll refrain from the argument. I'll simply let you know what I didn't use to arrive at my figures.
I didn't state the ratio of individuals marrying to the number getting divorces.
I also didn't count as one divorced people that have been divorced multiple times and ignore the multiple divorce number.
I also didn't take a survey of people to arrive at a number that could include people now married as not divorced if they had been divorced in the past.
Didn't use only females or only males since that too introduced data that was inconsistent.
Or by age group. Although the divorce rate for 50 up has now reached ridiculously high numbers.
Nor did I shrink or enlarge the number by including the whole population whether they are observed as under age, over age, incarcerated, serving outside the country or living apart for decades but still technically married.
In fact since you seem to be low estimating I'll assume that the privileged upper class is your focus, and will abandon my earlier estimate and say 66%.
You're right. Animals don't really count.
I didn't state the ratio of individuals marrying to the number getting divorces.
I also didn't count as one divorced people that have been divorced multiple times and ignore the multiple divorce number.
I also didn't take a survey of people to arrive at a number that could include people now married as not divorced if they had been divorced in the past.
Didn't use only females or only males since that too introduced data that was inconsistent.
Or by age group. Although the divorce rate for 50 up has now reached ridiculously high numbers.
Nor did I shrink or enlarge the number by including the whole population whether they are observed as under age, over age, incarcerated, serving outside the country or living apart for decades but still technically married.
In fact since you seem to be low estimating I'll assume that the privileged upper class is your focus, and will abandon my earlier estimate and say 66%.
You're right. Animals don't really count.