Friday, March 31, 2017

Marriage Makes No Difference for Happiness - Science

Mama mia, how can this be true ... but that's what the study reveals.  People who are monogamous are no happier than those who are screwing everyone in town.  (RT:  People in open relationships as happy as those in monogamous ones – study)

Ed:  that sure worked out well for Charlie Sheen, didn't it!

The lifestyle is not without risks but I'm sure he had a whale of a lot of fun and was happy while he was doing it.  He might have done better to consider, however, when you're sucking up cocaine the way most people consume oxygen then you will probably make some mistakes.



© Ilya Pitalev / Sputnik

There's a young swain now and he's trying the How Do You Like My iPad gambit which means he won't get laid tonight but that also means the comely lass in the picture will then be available.  Get busy, mates.

Note:  she's Russian so you will need to bring your best game which is specifically not Pokemon Go.


Most people in relationships tend to stick with one partner but not all are happy and seek more than one partner; that’s among the findings of new research published in the US.

In the hope of discovering the level of happiness of people in monogamous and open relationships, researchers from the University of Michigan surveyed 2,124 people to find out which relationship type yielded the highest levels of satisfaction.

The sample group consisted of 1,507 individuals in monogamous (one partner) relationships and 617 in open or polyamorous (more than one partner) relationships.

- RT

That looks like a fairly respectable sample size so, unless the survey questions are rubbish, the science they get from this should be good, right?

Note:  the Rockhouse loves that term 'polyamory' as one of the more twee expressions of the New Age Just Like the Old Age since when you're bangin' every Barbie in town, love don't got nothin' to do with it.


Participants were polled on a number of factors relating to their love life – including satisfaction, commitment, trust, jealousy and passionate love, the intense love feeling often described in new relationships.

After tallying the results, researchers found that there was very little difference in happiness between the two camps.

Overall, the outcomes for monogamous and consensual non-monogamous participants were the same – indicating no net benefit of one relationship style over another,” Terri Conley, lead author of the study said in a press release.

- RT

If you're buying this without wanting to see the questions the researchers asked, you may prefer to stick with politics since that won't work here.  Surveys of this nature can be stilted effortlessly through clever manipulation of the questions and validation of their efficacy for purpose is critical to determining whether the study had any value.

Ed:  were any of the people who ran the study actually married?

No idea on that one, Watson, but my guess is none of them were.  You've got to be more careful about believing everything you read because Uncle Silas won't always be here to help you sort it.

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