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Re:Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016) by ebg13 on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:02AM (#24261340)
> If you dig into the data, you'll see it's closer to "100 marriages this year, 50 divorces -- omg half of marriages end in divorce!" This is only true if there were zero existing, previous marriages before this year.

Ok, but your objection is only true if there were zero divorces in previous years. If the divorce count is half of the marriage count for the year every year, then it is indeed half.

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Re:Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016) by viridian on Monday August 24, 2020 @12:51PM (#24262527)
Not if the delta of both counts decrease, which is exactly the point the person you replied to already made. Divorce lags marriage by definition, since you can't get divorced without getting married.
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