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There is absolutely no reason to believe that restricting your data to shotgun weddings would control for the things that they claimed to be controlling for.

• sirclueless 10y ago
  The number of confounding factors is enormous. 1. The man may be more likely to acquiesce to the wedding if they have a stable income and can support a family. 2. The interested parties on the bride's side may be more interested in pursuing a shotgun wedding if the man has a stable income. 3. The same reasons that lead women to pursue marriage with high-income men may also lead them to pursue pre-marital unprotected sex with those men. I'm sure you can think of more. This seems like a very suspect way to segment a population.
  • linkregister 10y ago
    It's even further compounded by the fact that weddings with preconceived children are unlikely to be genuine shotgun weddings in 2017. The social pressure to reluctantly marry after conception is drastically less intense than it was 60 years ago.
    • JBReefer 10y ago
      They'd probably need to conduct them in the regions where the "shotgun" part isn't a metaphor, like deep Appalachia or rural Missouri. I'm from Missouri and I promise, it's not always just a figure of speech.
      • linkregister 10y ago
        If they did so, then the scope of their study wouldn't be national; it would only be regional. It wouldn't be relevant to national employment.
• DonHopkins 10y ago
  I want to know more about those shotgun tattoos...