Desrtopa comments on A Marriage Ceremony for Aspiring Rationalists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 25 July 2012 10:25:25PM 3 points [-]

Even discounting the demographic issues juliawise brings up, the odds are better than that for a first marriage, because the divorce rate of approximately .5 includes successive marriages, and people who've been divorced before and remarry are significantly more likely to divorce again than people who're on their first marriage.