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Originally Posted by analog
The "sample size" is the entire United States- every marriage and every divorce and their correlations by age and sex at time of divorce. How much bigger of a sample do you need? How much bigger of a sample of divorce rates in the U.S. can you get than the whole U.S.?? There isn't one. That is THE BIGGEST sample size there is.
It's like Secretmethod70 is saying "every human on Earth breathes air" and offers up "every single human being on Earth" as his sample size... and then you come along and want a larger sample...
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Sorry if you
misunderstood my post but in case you didn't read closely enough here is a refresher on the history of this side topic:
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Actually, getting married at 24 or younger increases your (my emphasis added) chances of divorce *dramatically.*
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Originally Posted by kutulu
Remember that statistics apply to groups, not individuals.
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Naturally, for some individuals it works to get married before 25, but that doesn't change the fact people who get married between 20 and 24 have the highest rate of divorce...
Age at marriage for those who divorce in the United States
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Originally Posted by kutulu
It still doesn't matter. Sample size is what matters. It's only relevant if you look at a large group of people. Anyways, that's not the point.
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This thread is about
one couple's thoughts on when a good age to get married is. Therefore I stand behind my statement that one couple isn't a large enough sample size for divorce rates to apply. A woman getting married at 23 doesn't have a 36.6% chance of getting a divorce. She either will or won't. OTOH, you can round up 100 women who got married at 23 and say with confidence that 37 of them will get a divorce, however, you still cannot make any claim about any
specific individual in that group.