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> I generally agree, but they're focused mostly on 65+ age group Another aspect possibly driving this: In USA a lot of people get divorced immediately after a
by Swizec 1y ago
> I generally agree, but they're focused mostly on 65+ age group
Another aspect possibly driving this: In USA a lot of people get divorced immediately after a cancer (or similar) diagnosis. That way only one of you goes bankrupt and you get to keep half your lifetime savings.
- dottjt 1y agoOn the contrary, you may get paid out a massive life insurance claim.
- abirch 1y agoYou don’t have to be married to be the beneficiary of life insurance policy. I believe you only need a financial interest.
- LorenPechtel 1y agoAnd a divorce will not cancel an existing policy even if it puts you in a position you couldn't get a new one.
- mhurron 1y ago[flagged]
- codeulike 1y agoNot sure if it was that paper, but there was a similar paper showing this phenomenon which later turned out to contain an error: https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/to-our-horror-widely-reported-study-suggesting-divorce-is-more-likely-when-wives-fall-ill-gets-axed/ https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/to-our-horror-widely-... People who left the study were actually miscoded as getting divorced. After the adjustment the correlation was less but was still there.
- mhurron 1y agoNo, they're not referencing the same paper.
- daymanstep 1y agoThe paper that you cited is the 2009 study: Glantz, M. J., Chamberlain, M. C., Liu, Q., Hsieh, C. C., Edwards, K. R., Van Horn, A., & Recht, L. (2009). Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness. Cancer, 115(22), 5237-5242. https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/cncr.24577 https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10... That paper has been debunked. Its conclusions were based on a coding error. When the coding error is corrected for the gender disparity disappears. Please stop citing this paper without adding that it was debunked. See for more details: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/ https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/
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- daymanstep 1y ago> If the wife gets ill, the marriage has about a 20% chance of ending because of it. If the husband becomes ill, there is only a 3% chance. Wrong. That paper has been debunked already. See: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/ https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/
- bdangubic 1y agodon’t fall for this type of nonsense :)
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- kortilla 1y agoThat is not happening in any meaningful volume.