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saint:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7315268/Happily-married-men-much-less-likely-to-suffer-stroke-than-single-or-unhappily-married-friends.html
--- Quote ---Single men and those in unsuccessful marriages were 64 per cent more likely to have a stroke than men in successful marriages.
Scientists say an unhappy marriage or being left on the shelf was as big a risk to your chances of having a stroke as having diabetes.
The findings even shocked scientists, who said they did not expect to see that a happy home life had such an impact on a man's health.
--- End quote ---
shmokes:
There is a glaring flaw in that study. They single out the happy married men from the unhappy married men, but don't perform a similar dissection of single men. So the unhappy single men drag down the numbers in the single men category, but the unhappy married men are conveniently isolated from the group. Thus, the only reliable conclusion to be drawn from the survey is that happy men have fewer strokes than unhappy men.
I find it difficult to believe that this wouldn't have occurred to the architects of this survey who are allegedly trained scientists conducting serious research. That they apparently chose to ignore such an obvious and important flaw leads me to believe that it was deliberate. They simply want to present a particular result as persuasively as possible, regardless of its truth.
Grasshopper:
There's also the difficulty in differentiating between association and cause and effect. For example it's reasonable to postulate that people who work long hours in highly stressful jobs are more likely to have a stroke. But those types of jobs can also be a contributing factor in marital breakdown.
That's just the first thing that came into my head. There are probably dozens of other factors that the researchers need to control for.
RayB:
*thumbs up* to Shmokes. :cheers:
thatitalian:
Maybe that came out wrong... I never tell my GF to shut up... If I did that it would be hard to get on this forum as my hands would have been removed from my body. I am simply saying be honest. If I am stressed I tell my GF if I really do not want to listen to her saying "do this... do that". We all "moan". I know in the end I will do what she says anyway... :P
I am just trying to share some advice because I had a similar problem not that long ago (to be fair nowhere near as stressful as your situation sounds) an decided that if I am to stay sane I need to be a bit more selfish. I am not advocating being a ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- to your wife. However, it sounds like your wife is very supportive, as is my GF, so you probably do not need to take this approach.
I am always completely honest, maybe a little too much sometimes, and I can also be quite direct (that is a nice word for "a knob" ;)) when I talk to people so if I am "honestly not listening" I say so.
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