“To our horror”: Widely reported study suggesting divorce is more likely when wives fall ill gets axed
retractionwatch.com
A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill — but not when men do — is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the origina…
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/wolf_chow on 2024-06-27 14:47:21+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that study that says men divorce their sick wives was retracted in 2015 for a major error that severely skewed its results (“no response” was classified as “getting divorced” for men).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.