Which Last Longer in America: Companies or Marriages?
Around the time they were joining FiveThirtyEight, two of my new co-workers got engaged (not to each other), and one co-worker got married. It got me thinking: Which lasts longer, the average American...
View ArticleHow Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?
Brendan Eich, the co-founder of Mozilla Corp. and its newly appointed CEO, resigned his position Thursday after less than two weeks on the job. Eich stepped down following a controversy over his $1,000...
View ArticleIn the Papers: Long-Term Unemployment, Education And Marriage, And Patent Trolls
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most respected economists, releases its latest batch of working papers. The papers...
View ArticleDear Mona, How Many Couples Sleep in Separate Beds?
Dear Mona, My wife and I sleep in different beds. How many couples are like us? Anonymous, 38 Dear Anonymous, In 1927, the Motion Picture Association of America issued “The Don’ts and Be Carefuls.”...
View ArticleI Went To A Psychic And Then Found Out How Right She Really Was
Here at FiveThirtyEight, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to predict stuff. The science of prediction is pretty hard to get right consistently. But in keeping with the philosophy of exploring...
View ArticleAmericans Aren’t Getting Married Anymore
The Pew Research Center on Wednesday came out with a big report on the decline of marriage in the United States. A record 1 in 5 Americans 25 or older have never been married, up from 1 in 10 in 1960....
View ArticleMarriage Isn’t Dead — Yet
Fewer Americans of all stripes are getting married. But beneath that overarching trend lies an important distinction: Some groups are merely delaying marriage, while others are skipping it entirely....
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage Is Now Legal For A Majority Of The U.S.
Although the trend toward greater acceptance of same-sex marriage has been evident for some time both in jurisprudence and public opinion, the speed with which it has become the law of the land is...
View ArticleDear Mona, Does Living Together Before Marriage Increase The Risk Of Divorce?
Dear Mona, I wonder if you would consider doing some research on marriage success rates for those who did and did not live together before tying the knot. There has been lots of work over the years,...
View ArticleCatholics Are More Progressive Than The Vatican, And Almost Everyone Else
Roman Catholic bishops released a draft document this week calling for the church to welcome gays, unmarried couples and people who have divorced. The document is proving to be highly controversial...
View ArticleCtrl + ← Marriage, Divorce And White Progress
This is Ctrl + ←, our weekly data journalism roundup. You’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet. MOST READ Who Had The...
View ArticleChecking The Accuracy Of My Tarot Card Reading
It’s the end of the year, and my colleague Harry Enten is working on a “what I got wrong in 2014” post. This is an admirable exercise, and I’d love to participate. But I made only a few predictions...
View ArticleHow Many Women Earn More Than Their Husbands?
Dear Mona, In what percentage of relationships does the woman make more money than the man? And does this increase the probability of a divorce? Joseph, 24, New Mexico Dear Joseph, In 38 percent of...
View ArticleShould You Get Married (Or Divorced) For Tax Reasons?
PUBLISHED 5:20 PM EST | APR 15, 2015 I was super excited about doing my taxes this year. I got married last June and couldn’t wait to exercise that most glorious privilege of matrimony — the ability...
View ArticleHow Many Americans Are Married To Their Cousins?
Dear Mona, What percentage of marriages in the U.S. are between first cousins? Daryn, 46, Western Australia Dear Daryn, An estimated 0.2 percent of marriages in the United States are between...
View ArticleThe Week In Data: Murders, Marriage, Money And Methodology
This is the Week in Data, our data journalism roundup. Here you’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet. MOST READ How Many...
View ArticleWhen Will Everyone I Know Be Married?
Dear Mona, I’m 24 and at the age where a lot of my friends are getting married. I’m wondering what’s the average marriage age for people in the United States vs. worldwide. Ian (unmarried), 24,...
View ArticleHow Many Republicans Marry Democrats?
Evidence abounds that Democrats and Republicans really do not like each other. Researchers have found that they avoid dating one another, desire not to live near one another and disapprove of the idea...
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