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It probably doesn't help to live in a society where changing one's positions in response to evidence is considered "waffling", and is considered to show a lack of conviction.
Divorce is a lot more common than 4%, so people do admit mistakes when given enough evidence.
Changing your mind or "updating" is not necessarily a sign of rationality. You could also update for wrong reasons.
For example, a divorce can happen when a person has unrealistic expectations on marriage. Updating their beliefs about their partner would be just a side effect of refusing to update their beliefs about marriage.
Also, in some cases, the divorce could have been planned since the beginning (for example for financial gain), so it actually did not include a change of mind.