From Oz Conservative:
In August of this year, the US Census Bureau released a report on divorce rates in the different states of America. It was widely reported in the media that people were more likely to divorce in the Bible Belt states than in the liberal northeast.
At the time I accepted the statistics. I believed that people in the northeast were less likely to marry as teenagers and more likely to have higher incomes and higher education and that this explained the difference…
So I went back to the original source. And to my surprise I found that the divorce statistics had been misrepresented in most of the mainstream media. It turns out that what was being compared was the number of divorces per 1000 people in each state rather than the number of divorces per 1000 married couples.
Alte
September 24, 2011
Please go to Mark’s place for commentary. I just thought it was significant enough to highlight here, as these statistics are still being quoted to denigrate conservatives.
John Galt
September 28, 2011
I’m curious as to your findings. You say the sampling is between 1000 people per state, are there any more assumptions other than a random 1000 people? I’m curious, becuase I deal with people going through breakups. Can you help me find this information? Thank you in advance.