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Study Shows Men Are HAPPIER Before Marriage And AFTER Divorce. Yikes

dav0011

December 2, 2019

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Title	Study Shows Men Are HAPPIER Before Marriage And AFTER Divorce. Yikes
Author	dav0011
Upvotes	45
Comments	28
Date	December 2, 2019 3:12 AM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/e4sqcg/study_shows_men_are_happier_before_marriage_and/
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[–]fgrsentinel 2 points3 points4 points 6 years ago* (1 child) | Copy Link

It's important to note that the divorce statistic is based off people who have been divorced, so naturally we're talking about people who were already unhappy with their marriages. I'd honestly be surprised if the red line showed positive life satisfaction in the years leading up to a divorce, which can be a years-long process.

Likewise, it's interesting that while the male life satisfaction drops every year leading up to the divorce itself, average female life satisfaction increases the year before the divorce and then drops slightly the year of the divorce, then takes two years to start to recover compared to the male's one year and peaks below the average male life satisfaction at year 5. In the same vein, women bounce back from their spouse dying faster than men do, taking two years to recover neutral/positive life satisfaction compared to men's three and a half.

What needs to be remembered here is a little thing, I forget what it's called, that claims that it's human nature to eventually go back to neutral life satisfaction/happiness after a change in your living situation, so these "happier before marriage and after divorce" things aren't that surprising.

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[–]Chill-BL 2 points3 points4 points 6 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Irregardless off the fact whether the statement is true or not.

But how do you do science or research without making generalizations? Especially if the generalizations happen to be true.

You argue that it's against the "hate" speech policy (hate speech doesn't exist btw) and making "extreme" generalizations is a reason for bans/removal.

Yet when I state 99% of women have the ability to be bear a child. (which is an extreme generalizations yet true) Or when I state 99% of women are 3D printers (using 3D printing as a metaphor for bearing a child).

Both statements are true, generalizations (one may be cruder then the other) but nonetheless make it true.

and I think, the safe"guarding" of words and the game we play, where we have to be selective with the words we say/use, just plays in to the what the powers that be want.

Besides, if the highest point off happiness in life (according to the research presented above) is the act the of getting married, with all the problems it poses for your spouse, I kinda get the:

Because women are psychotic 90% of the time they're awake.

[–]iainmf[M] 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

But how do you do science or research without making generalizations?

I would hope researchers are careful to talk about likelihoods, probabilities, trends, statistics etc.

For example, it is better to say, "men are taller than women, on average', than to simply say 'men are taller than women'. Or "it is more likely that a very tall person is a man" is better than "tall people are men"

This is the problem with the dialogue around the pay gap. If people were more careful to avoid generalisations like "women are paid 77c for a man's dollar" and instead say something like "Women earn 77% of what men earn, on average" people would understand it better.

I think, the safe"guarding" of words and the game we play, where we have to be selective with the words we say/use, just plays in to the what the powers that be want.

I'm not concerned about the words as much as the clarity. Although we do have to recognise that Reddit does have the power to shut down this sub, and that means playing by their rules if we want to continue.

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