"the marriage gap" (economist article)
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Interesting. Could one also "assume" that age has quite a bit to do with the divorce stats, and perhaps maturity could factor into that too?
Bad news. I don't know how to fix that though. Quite frankly, when my wife and I met, we would have never ended up married if one of us was a high school dropout. Her intelligence is something that I value quite highly. She obviously didn't think intelligence was as important in a mate, but that's another topic altogether...
Where's our poor little boy from Walnut Creek when you need him?
This is why I hate statistics.
I think it's fair to assume that if you've got a college degree that you postponed getting married.
Life experiences are just as important to making good decisions as any decision-making skills learned in college.
Typical jew response....
(That joke will stop being funny pretty soon...we're gettin' there.)
Busy feeding the homeless in Mountain View?
Statistics are never wrong; only our interpretations of them.
Obviously there are more questions but whether it's because of intelligence, or the education itself or a forced delay, there IS a correlation. There are also some very interesting trends over time... I need to read the article when I get a breather.
Dude, he can't afford to feed the homeless. His family only lives on $100k a year...
I disagree.
If they had compared all couples who got married when he was 25 and she 23, then we'd be a little closer to some sort of statistical understanding.
When there are too many variables to make a result useful, than the stats are "wrong".
"Figures never lie, but liars always figure"
As far as thoughts......I really feel bad for women who have children too young and have to drop out of school because society is merciless and believes "If I made through college and got a job, why can't they."
Undergrad colleg is great because you can mess up every relationship and life in general and after graduation you get to start out new and hopefully not screw it up at work. Lessons learned.
Being married to a Phd (I don't know what she sees in my simple a$$) i shouldn't really comment on those, but I hear sometimes they are too caught up in their data to learn about personal relationships during their schooling.
So it looks like at its widest, the gap is about 30%? I could totally huck that.
did you read the article? such comparisons are made.
Of course not.
No there are just too may variables for us to come to a conclusion. There are never too many variables for us to come to reasonable hypotheses and then dive into the next phase of research.
The problem is that people try to conclude far too early. The problem is the people and not the numbers.
Here's an example... wmy firm doesn't use consumer surveys anymore because when you ask someone a direct question, they answer aspirationally, not truthfully. Does that make the data wrong? No, it just makes people very likely to misinterpret the data by taking it at face value... but there is a lot to be learned by diving deeper and trying to understand WHY people answer the way they do.
Wow! What findings!!!! Stupid broads make stupid decisions. Stop the presses.
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Wow...its good your old lady is a PhD...because you sound like an idiot. I used my undergrad connections to get a job...so to say you can **** off the entire time and come out happy as hell is bull ****. Get your head out of your ass. BTW...I'm going for my MBA and my wife is back in school to become a Dr. so I'm not some "uneducated" person criticizing you.
<edit> There always has been a correlation between education and the success of marriage and the success of their kids. Colleges educated people tend to wait to marry and tend to wait to have kids.....they are typically more financially secure (and finances are one of the big reasons for divorce). Driven people will always succeed, but educated people give themselves a better shot at it. God knows I need my education to make money....I'm not going to invent something that makes millions.
An idiot- well I won't argure there, but I will pull my head out of my ass and clarify:
In undergrad you can experiment with different personalities from a broad range of cultural and geographic diversities. Obviously you "mess up" or fail at every relationship until you find "the right one", but the exposure in undergrad is much greater than high school or the workplace post high school. Therefore you learn many relationship lessons and can either apply that to a clean slate in a new environment after college, or take "the one" person you were lucky enough to find in college to the next level.
With respect to the charts, the above could be a possible explanation why degreed parents stay together.
So is the divorce/single parenting curve due to intelligence gained through education, or..........simply due to the extra time one has to experiment with relationships during the process of getting an education??
Yeah, no sh*t, mte.
What's happening with average marriage age in the US lately? I remember hearing somewhere that people in the US tended to get married younger than people in other Western/OECD countries. I'd guess it's rising in the US as it is everywhere else.