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In reply to the discussion: American Taliban: Women have no right to their own bodies, but they're responsible for HIS [View all]mbperrin
(7,672 posts)Your statistic said that only 18% dated more than twice, but even the 40% that dated once is around 63,000,000 or about half your number. Your assumption that some have not been asked is not addressed in your data set, so please don't use that here.
So the 18% of repeat daters adds up to 25 million or so. Your stat said that 6% of those ended up marrying - that's north of a million people, short of two million people, so the number of marriages is half that, or somewhere between half a million and three quarters. These are all small numbers, minorities in the workplace.
Genetics has to do with attraction? Really? I'll pose a bit of a challenge, then. Please find the common genetic traits between Julia Roberts' husbands. Or cite a study, please. Attraction is strictly a learned behavior, whether modeled for us by those who raised us, and we haven't examined that, or by being influenced by other folks we wish to impress.
The only reason it was challenging is because the dentist made it one. That's sad. He needs to lose his license and his practice, because he is unfit for the general public and is unwilling to change.