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I wonder if being told you're going to divorce or being told you're going to stay together influences your decision making. It's hard to see how the researchers can maintain the objectivity they seem to need to collect the data. Staging a controlled argument isn't going to produce the natural reactions that it would if they didn't think anyone was listening or analyzing them.
I wonder if it would be any different if the researcher fully participated in the discussion while gathering data, like a marriage counsellor might.
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One of the pre-marital/marital enrichment inventories that I use has studies showing a pretty good predictive rate. But the counselor is not supposed to tell the couple that. Instead we work on improving the score.
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Stig, don't wory about the singularity. It will crush anyone making fun of it to quantum foam. I love black holes.
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