1. Anecdotally, conditional upon marriage, the rate of divorce in my EA friends seem much higher than among my non-EA friends of similar ages. So it is not the case that EAs are careful/slow to marry because they are less willing with making long-term commitments, or because they are more okay with pre-marital cohabitation.
I’m not sure I understand why the observation in the first sentence supports the claims in the second sentence? Couldn’t EAs tend to be less willing to make long-term commitments, or be more ok with pre-marital cohabitation, but then there’s also some other factor (e.g., not feeling bound by conventions, regularly changing lifestyles such as by moving, disagreeablenss) meaning that if EAs get married they’re more likely to get divorced? Or couldn’t be that EAs tend to have those two features, but the EAs who get married are ones who deviate from those tendencies?
My inside view is that if you don’t update on the observed data and just consider which characteristics will make EAs more or less likely to be married, I think there are a bunch of factors that push EAs towards “more”as opposed to less.
I’m not sure I understand why the observation in the first sentence supports the claims in the second sentence? Couldn’t EAs tend to be less willing to make long-term commitments, or be more ok with pre-marital cohabitation, but then there’s also some other factor (e.g., not feeling bound by conventions, regularly changing lifestyles such as by moving, disagreeablenss) meaning that if EAs get married they’re more likely to get divorced? Or couldn’t be that EAs tend to have those two features, but the EAs who get married are ones who deviate from those tendencies?
This seems true to me as well.
I think this was poorly phrased on my part. I meant to say “it is not only the case.” I will edit the parent comment.