Interesting Links for 19-12-2011
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andrewducker- Lib Dems come out against tax breaks for married couples
- Why I object to the worship of moral systems.
It's what makes me very wary of things like constitutions that are very hard to change and seen as more than "Some rules that makes it easier to live together."
- A very Lovecraft Christmas
- My Favorite Strange Number: Ω
- Merry Christmas, War Is Over (In Iraq)
- Official Lord of The Rings LEGO - coming in the summer!
- 5 Ridiculous Sex Myths From History
- Harmless Weapons
- British Telecom sues Google over Android (and almost everything else)
- Major poll finds Britons conflicted on immigration
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:16 pm (UTC)Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!
I'll bet a pint that's not what the data they're referring to actually say. (Giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they are referring to actual data, rather than making it up out of whole cloth.)
And even if it is, there is a huge, huge inferential leap from that statement to it being a remotely good idea to provide a small financial incentive for people to get married.
(To be fair: Kudos for not saying 33% and 11%, and for not compounding their error by saying that couples living together are three times more likely to split up before their child is five than married couples. And the statement as written might well be true - marriage is clearly important and has that important association.)
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:22 pm (UTC)