“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 2024-06-28 17:28:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: The widely-reported study that men leave their wives due to illness more often than women leave husbands was retracted in 2015 because an error in the data analysis code classified “no response” from men as “choosing divorce” which rendered the original results invalid and skewed.