Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither?

Posted by goldfishgold on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:00PM
from the statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu dept.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/08/27/marriage-happiness/

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Re:Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for wome... by slwvx on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:04PM (#41381025)

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375828

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Re:Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for wome... by ipaddr on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:12PM (#41381112)

Surprised columbia put this behind cloudflair. Hate to see them spread into academia.

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Re:Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for wome... by chongli on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:32PM (#41381315)

It sounds like a lot of this is due to Psychology Today misreporting a study they link to in their own piece which directly contradicts their own conclusion. People complain a lot about science journalists but this seems exceptionally bad. Psychology Today really ought to retract that piece!

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Re:Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for wome... by simonblack on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @07:16PM (#41385453)

It depends on the couple. My first marriage was not a happy one. My second marriage was a happy one.

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Re:Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for wome... by mcphage on Thursday August 29, 2024 @10:18AM (#41391084)

From the article:

> The report is called, “Married People Are Living Their Best Lives,” which is vivid, but, as a statistician, I wish they’d added “On Average” somewhere in that title.

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