Huh, it's that buffer thing that I didn't know about and isn't mentioned in your link (maybe it's Forth specific?), I use an RPN calculator app, but everything goes on the stack, so "This" would be on the bottom and be popped off last.
I knew about what it really stands for before your post, but without doing research I can't tell how much of the rest is false: Is Wollongong a real city? Are the first two even in NSW? Etc.
I've heard of this kind of thing before, but always just thought it was silly - sure if you sample random observations over the lifetime of a thing, the median will be right in the middle, but that's a tautology, it's by definition. And it doesn't have any predictive power because the observations at the beginning or end have an equal probability to the ones in the middle, there's no way for any of them to know where they were until after the fact.
Using this method, this company that went under in 2006 would have guessed in the year 2000 that they would last another 1400 years. While Nintendo in 1900 would have guessed only another 11 years.
Probably something like a Scandinavian country with a good social safety net. It might be tough to get citizenship, but at least I might have a chance to survive that long.
Numbers are indeed very high, but none of them reach 50%. And you're right that general unhappiness while remaining married is hard to measure, but even that "gray divorce" rate (when the kids are not as big a factor) isn't so high, which I think would be an indication.
Also, that's only marriage. Lots of people are in stable LTRs (usually not their first, but that doesn't mean much if they are in one now.)
I feel like there is a similar but opposite bias to survivorship in the reporting of relationships in general: you only hear about the bad ones.
My friends are all freaks and geeks, much like myself, but even in our group those that are in relationships at all have been in them long term and are at least seemingly happy with them. This seems like the usual case in the general population too - bad cases become gossip (or news if the people are famous), but most of the stable cases don't make a big deal about it.
A lower percentage of them are people on Reddit and unfortunately that percentage is dropping here also. (We have bots posting weird questions to the question communities for example)
Huh, it's that buffer thing that I didn't know about and isn't mentioned in your link (maybe it's Forth specific?), I use an RPN calculator app, but everything goes on the stack, so "This" would be on the bottom and be popped off last.