The Telegraph is reporting a new "successful marriage" study, originally published in the European Journal of Operational Research. Here's a taste:
"Scientists tracked 1,000 couples who were either married or in serious relationships over five years and then looked for patterns among those who were still together.
"They found that neither should have been divorced in the past, the man should be five or more years older and the woman should have received more education than the man.
"...Men and women choose partners “on the basis of love, physical attraction, similarity of taste, beliefs and attitudes, and shared values," but that using “objective factors” such as age, education and cultural origin “may help reduce divorce.”
Check out the full story here.
Of course, there's plenty to criticize about this study and how it's being reported on: Implying that intelligence and education are the same thing, and framing the questions almost entirely for the grooms-to-be, for starters.
Read a criticism of this study here.
But we still enjoy reading these studies. It seems as though a new one is always coming out, and though we wouldn't base our husband choices on them, they usually make for a fun read.
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