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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by scarmig on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:09PM (#36318275)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731029/

> Covariates. We control for covariates that are likely associated with both psychological distress and marital strain including respondent age, education, and employment status (Mirowsky & Ross, 2003), spouse health status (Kiecolt-Glaser & Wilson, 2017), relationship duration (Proulx et al., 2007), and children in household (Mirowsky & Schieman, 2008).

So at least they attempted to account for obvious covariates.

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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by UncleMeat on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:25PM (#36318470)
This is my favorite kind of scientific criticism. People who can't even access a paper just saying "well I bet they didn't control for obvious thing X" and then moving on.
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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by lostmsu on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:18PM (#36319004)
This is my favorite kind of personal attacks. Never have I said "they did not control", but here you are.
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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by UncleMeat on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:14PM (#36319518)
Not a personal attack. A criticism of the content of your post.
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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:29PM (#36320679)
> Never have I said "they did not control"

They didn’t make this claim.

> "well I bet they didn't control for obvious thing X"

Is a close paraphrase of

> if they did not correctly control for kids, it is useless

The comment seems to be intended as a dismissal while calling itself out as uninformed (“cannot be accessed without payment” suggests it wasn’t accessed).

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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by lostmsu on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:27PM (#36319104)
They did, but the study does not make the same conclusion as the article you linked.

TBH I am not familiar with the the way data is presented in this last link, and likely biased toward my own expectations, but my uneducated read of table 2 says that children, education, being a woman, and employment status are the largest contributors to the distress.

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