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Originally posted by bilmore
The ones I knew looked at future marriage/divorce stats for the kids, and some other objective measures that aren't coming to me right now. They candidly admit that you can't measure happiness, so they looked for what they thought were valid symptoms of happiness and adjustment. Best that can be done, I guess, but, again, lack of completely accurate data shouldn't completely obviate the study, as long as a reader is made aware of the limitations. I found them persuasive.
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I didn't say you had to throw out the whole study, but surely you can see that "future divorce rates" doesn't really mean much when measuring happiness. It may just mean that you've learned to swallow your unhappiness and stay married because that's what your idiot parents did.
And how do they measure the happiness of the kids when they're kids and it's actually happening? That's what I would concentrate on.
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Originally posted by bilmore
If you have few friends, you may not be the best baseline.
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You're right. But it's by choice because (and I believe we've come full circle), people are stupid.
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