Did a bit of a deep dive here because I am so angry at having “learned” this “statistic” YEARS after the paper was retracted (when it only existed for SIX MONTHS before it was retracted!!) and because reading retracted papers is fun science schadenfreude (seriously, check out the vaccines and autism one, it’s awful, bring popcorn)
tl;dr
I believe the authors when they say it was an accidental error
The error was DUMB AS SH*T though and someone somewhere should have caught it
My faith in humanity(’s ability to read a table with its brain on) is shaken
My faith in humanity(’s loyalty to its sick spouses) is restored
This study doesn’t have enough actual data to say anything about anything really
TIL that study that says men divorce their sick wives was retracted in 2015 for a major error that severely skewed its results (“no response” was classified as “getting divorced” for men). Men do not actually divorce their sick wives at a higher rate than women divorce sick husbands. /end]
a wizard is going to turn you into a random animal! whether you like it or not! how nice of them! spin the wheel to find out which class your new species belongs to (and then probably do a google).
ALT
