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For a more in depth analysis check out "The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work", a book based on decades of research at the Seattle "Love Lab". Dr Gottman
by ArtDev 12y ago
For a more in depth analysis check out "The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work", a book based on decades of research at the Seattle "Love Lab". Dr Gottman has written other books, but this is the book on marriage research.
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Principles-Making-Marriage-Work/dp/0609805797 http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Principles-Making-Marriage-Work/...
- tjradcliffe 12y agoGottman is selling just-so stories. His "predictors" aren't actually predictors, but classifiers. In machine learning terms, he gets his amazing results ("can predict which couples will stay together in just five minutes!") only on the training set, which as anyone with machine learning experience knows, is trivially easy: you can get 91% accuracy on training data consisting of random numbers in many cases. Reference: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/03/can_you_really_predict_the_success_of_a_marriage_in_15_minutes.html http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/03/can_y...