Original post by DeepStarI'm not trying to discredit what you are saying though, I'm simply explaining my point of view, which differs from yours. Neither, which is factual because statistics can never be taken at face value. I don't have any interest in the findings but the experimenters do so their conclusions may be based on their own personal bias and not necessarily the findings i.e. they saw what they wanted to find, with possibly an unrepresentative sample.
Marriages fall apart and together for a wide range of reasons and factors but I don't think on its own, it has much, if anything to do with count of previous partners, but combined with other factors that end a marriage, it may play a role. Correlation is there for so many things but people choose not to act on it, so should this be any different?
People get divorced because one of them has more previous partners than the other is not a fact of life, it is your opinion, which you are of course entitled to but implying its significance for every divorce is just absurd. Again, evidence lacks validity and does not reflect upon real life situations. Research has been done on how genuine a smile icon looks compared to another, that evidence shows one is fake and other isn't - the importance or significance of such mounting evidence in real life or on MSN users? None.