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Married men live longer then single guys

#81
You will therefore be taken to the Dune Sea and cast into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlacc. In his belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you are slowly digested over a thousand years. :help:
 
#83
Let's just say it's a metaphor to possibly explain why married men could live longer. Just put Al Bundy's face to it and play it again in your head. It should make much more sense if envisaged in this way.
 
#84
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In real numbers, “under the worse-case scenario,” single men could die about eight to 17 years earlier than their married male friends, says Roelfs, citing that nearly all of the data was gleaned from studies conducted in the last 60 years. Women don't fare much better. They could die seven to 15 years earlier than their married female counterparts.
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#85
“I think there is a marriage bias,” says social psychologist Bella DePaulo, author of "Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After." Too many studies, she believes, look at singles versus married people, without counting the divorced or widowed among the married cohort, skewing the numbers.
“You can’t say that single people would live longer if they got married, based on this research, because the researcher is only counting the people who got married and are still currently married.
Divorced and widowed people got married at one time, too,” says DePaulo, a visiting professor in social psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Of course, the perfect study to answer the thorny question of whether marriage really does impart health benefits would be, well, unethical: randomly assigning people to stay single or to get married, and then following them throughout their lives.
Then there’s the question of the quality of marriage — good, bad, indifferent — and its effect on longevity.
“I don’t think you need a study to tell people that a lousy marriage is going to be bad for someone’s health,” Roelfs says.
 
#86
Avalon said:
Let's just say it's a metaphor to possibly explain why married men could live longer. Just put Al Bundy's face to it and play it again in your head. It should make much more sense if envisaged in this way.
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I can see old Al now saying the whole thing with a straight face, that is pretty funny. After all look what happened in the marriage of Anakin and Princess Leia.
 
#92
slobake said:
I think it's best to not take this study too seriously. Better to take care of our health and marry or not based on what we think is our best for each of us. The same with kids. Some of us want kids some don't. I would think that making choices that create misery in our lives could have an ever greater detrimental effect on hour health than being married or not.
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Avalon said:
“I think there is a marriage bias,” says social psychologist Bella DePaulo, author of "Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After." Too many studies, she believes, look at singles versus married people, without counting the divorced or widowed among the married cohort, skewing the numbers.
“You can’t say that single people would live longer if they got married, based on this research, because the researcher is only counting the people who got married and are still currently married.
Divorced and widowed people got married at one time, too,” says DePaulo, a visiting professor in social psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Of course, the perfect study to answer the thorny question of whether marriage really does impart health benefits would be, well, unethical: randomly assigning people to stay single or to get married, and then following them throughout their lives.
Then there’s the question of the quality of marriage — good, bad, indifferent — and its effect on longevity.
“I don’t think you need a study to tell people that a lousy marriage is going to be bad for someone’s health,” Roelfs says.
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Sarcasm aside, this is pretty much what I think. There are just too many variables to make a blanket statement like: "If you get married, you'll live longer."
 

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