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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by Blikkentrekker on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:27AM (#26054875)
Relative percentages can also quite easily be inverted, if one look at the complement.

The alternative way to look at it is that 89.3% vs. 88.7% don't divorce, which makes it a relative difference of 0.7%.

The do-divorce is a 5.6% increase, and the don't-divorce is a 0.7%; both are derived from the very same numbers.

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by _qulr on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:34AM (#26054913)
Excellent point.

There's also the dubious assumption that increasing the divorce rate is a bad thing. Kids can sometimes suffer more from an unhappy marriage than from divorce. Especially older kids who are more aware of the situation.

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