Divorce
In: Culture
28 Oct 2009
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2 Responses to Divorce
Helen
October 29th, 2009 at 6:47 am
I’m all for pretty graphs, but it’s more important that the data be correct.
The data has been completely misinterpreted.
For the column labeled “# who have been married,”what are the units? Thousands, presumably, assuming this data is for the entire US.
The column labeled “# who have been married” should be labeled “people who are currently married.” People in the 80′s are not unmarried because they’re swinging singles — they’re widowed.
Likewise, the divorce data doesn’t include those who divorced and remarried. So the “divorce rate” is all wrong.
The authors spent more time picking pretty colors than thinking about the data.
Dustin
October 29th, 2009 at 9:30 am
yeah, I had similar thoughts when I looked at it. They should have included a venn diagram or something explaining exactly what groups are counted here.