Comments on: Decoding Love with Andrew Trees http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/04/decoding-love-with-andrew-trees/ Fresh culture daily. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Decoding Love…Statistically, that is! | Midtown Girl http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/04/decoding-love-with-andrew-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-7211 Decoding Love…Statistically, that is! | Midtown Girl Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:48:27 +0000 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=14105#comment-7211 [...] an interview w. the Author from sundancechannel.com…I know – Sundance, [...] [...] an interview w. the Author from sundancechannel.com…I know – Sundance, [...]

]]> By: Jane http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/04/decoding-love-with-andrew-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Jane Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:27:55 +0000 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=14105#comment-558 I hate when people cite the research on living together/marriage like that. If you have a basic understanding of science/statistics, you know that correlation does not imply causation. Finding that people who live together are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce does not mean that living together influences the marriage and divorce rates - it just means that they are related in some way. Personally, I think it seems likely that having less traditional attitudes towards relationships (another variable entirely) causes couples to live together, marry less, and divorce more. I'm shocked that the author wrote an entire book on the science of attraction and yet makes such an elementary, silly, and possibly damaging mistake. I hate when people cite the research on living together/marriage like that. If you have a basic understanding of science/statistics, you know that correlation does not imply causation. Finding that people who live together are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce does not mean that living together influences the marriage and divorce rates – it just means that they are related in some way. Personally, I think it seems likely that having less traditional attitudes towards relationships (another variable entirely) causes couples to live together, marry less, and divorce more.

I’m shocked that the author wrote an entire book on the science of attraction and yet makes such an elementary, silly, and possibly damaging mistake.

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