Sometimes It's Nice To Be Wrong

[Bags]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  My point was the opposite.  If you looked at the table in yesterday's Week in Review section, the Republicans made inroads in the "Some college", "College degree" and "college degree or more" demographics.  The Democrats only held an advantage in the smallest categories at the extremes.

Haven't read or looked at Week in Review yet...so I'm not sure I get your point, though I'll go take a look.  In other words, Reps claim the middle, while Dems claim college professors and Quickie mart employees?

[ggw]

Originally posted by Bags:
 In other words, Reps claim the middle, while Dems claim college professors and Quickie mart employees?

Exactly.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  He had no problem admitting that the problem with his party is that they have turned into a bunch of pompous self-deluding fuckwads who can do little beyond mocking and belittling anyone who doesn't have their same worldview.  

i have found, the exact opposite is true.  
 
  I have also known Democrats to be more concerned with whats happening being right and wrong, while Republicans dont seem to give a rats ass as long as they're paychecks are fat and thier SUVs are big.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Hey Quickie Mart employee,
 
 It's THEIR.
 
 not they're or thier.
 
 Signed,
 
 Professor Miller

[sonickteam2]

yes, thank you. i think i was thinking one thing and typing another.
 
  chili dog?

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Rhett, excellent rant!!!

[Random Citizen]

Too bad Rhett left off his source.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
 Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? Itâ??s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, thatâ??s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think thatâ??s just some aberration?

It is not surprising in the least that the state with the third lowest marriage rate would have the lowest divorce rate.
 
 You can't divorce if you don't marry.
 
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
 How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states

9 of the 10 lowest marriage rates are fucking blue states as well.
 
 You can't divorce if you don't marry.
 
 I'm sure this is just a cut-and-paste job, Rhett.  But as a junior statistician, you should hold yourself to a higher standard.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  9 of the 10 lowest marriage rates are fucking blue states as well.
 
 You can't divorce if you don't marry.
 

a rate is a rate, nonetheless. sure lower marriage counts mean less people to get divorced, but the rate is still less.
 
   they must have low marriage rates cause of all those faggot liberals and red sox fans up there.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

More like Rhett, excellent cut and paste!@
 
 

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  Rhett, excellent rant!!!

[ggw]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
 a rate is a rate, nonetheless. sure lower marraige counts mean less people to get divorced, but the rate is still less.

The marriage and divorce rates are calculated as marriage per 1000 people and divorce per 1000 people.  The 2000 marriage rate in Massachusetts was 6.0 per 1000 and the divorce rate was 3.0 per 1000.   In Virginia, the marriage rate was 9.0/1000 and the divorce rate was 4.3/1000.
 
 In absolute terms, the divorce rate was higher in Virginia.  However, relative to people who got married (who are the only people that can get divorced!!!) the divorce rate is actually higher in Massachusetts than in Virginia.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Marriage should be something that is given strong consideration before ever being endeavored into, as any neurotic northern Barry Cohen on the block would tell you after proposing to his girlfriend of seven years, Sarah Lonstein.
 
    Marriage should not be something that is done every time some Billy Bob want to get his dick wet,
 
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
 Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? Itâ??s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, thatâ??s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think thatâ??s just some aberration?

It is not surprising in the least that the state with the third lowest marriage rate would have the lowest divorce rate.
 
 You can't divorce if you don't marry.
 
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
 How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states

9 of the 10 lowest marriage rates are fucking blue states as well.
 
 You can't divorce if you don't marry.
 
 I'm sure this is just a cut-and-paste job, Rhett.  But as a junior statistician, you should hold yourself to a higher standard. [/b]

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

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[bellenseb]

Wait, wait.
 
 I assumed "divorce rate" meant percent of marriages that end in divorce. That would be a meaningful statistic.
 
 But if you compare it to "marriage rate", which I have to assume means rate of marriages per capita or some such, then either you're a) comparing apples to oranges, or b) comparing per capita numbers in both cases, which I don't think is that meaningful.
 
 Anyone want to shed some light on this? I dunno what the source of these numbers is.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 
 the divorce rate was higher in Virginia.  
 
  the divorce rate is actually higher in Massachusetts.

ok.