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EP. REVIEW: Scum's Wish

@ Gina Szanboti - I agree with your assessment except for the mommy issues thing. Not sure where that's coming from.

While it would be nice to have one not-completely-messed-up character

Although, if he truly has mommy issues he shouldn't be chasing young stuff like Akane.

...and if we lived in some magical fairyland where correlation was causation, that would be a really compelling point.

@ Chrysostomus - you are proving you don't understand BSP's point about the distinction between correlation and causation. If you've had no sexual partners before marriage and your spouse is the only sexual partner you've ever had, chances are excellent that both of you have been brought up in religious communities where that is considered the ideal and everything else is "wrong." These are communities where divorce is still heavily stigmatized and therefore not pursued, even if one or both partners are unhappy. A marriage that doesn't end in divorce is not proof that it is a happy and satisfying one. By the same token, when people like that are asked, "are you happy in your marriage?" the only "correct" answer is "yes." On the flip side, somebody may be unable for emotional and mental reasons to form long lasting relationships. So they have several partners. That doesn't mean that promiscuity itself is the problem, the problem may lie elsewhere.

So, the fact that the statistics aren't being deputed on validity by professionals shows me that they are relevant and measure accurately what they set out to measure

“There are a wide variety of reasons that may lead people to have multiple partners before marriage and, independent of how many partners they have, also be less satisfied in marriage,” Dr. Jim McNulty, a social psychology professor from Florida State University who has published a plethora of research on the topic, wrote in an email.

“For example, people who tend to avoid commitment in general may have more sexual partners and be less happy when they settle down. It’s not the fact that they have more sexual partners that leads them to be less happy, it’s the fact that they don’t really like commitment. I would be very surprised if having multiple sexual partners before marriage, independent of any other factor, has a direct causal influence.”

In other words, correlation should never be confused with causation.

“We cannot make any conclusions about cause-and-effect,” says Justin Lehmiller, PhD, sex educator and researcher at Purdue University, adding, “Could it be that multiple premarital partners impacts marital happiness? Maybe. But it could also be that people who have more partners have different personalities or different attitudes toward marriage or relationships.”

Beyond that, Lehmiller says there may be flaws in the way data was analyzed — the way in which good marriages were separated from bad marriages was “rather odd” he says. “Even the authors admit that they were ‘arbitrary’ in their report. They defined ‘higher quality marriages’ as those in which individuals scored in the top 40 percent ... Why the top 40 percent?”

McNulty also points out that though the authors are respected researchers, the study was not reported by an academic journal nor was it peer-reviewed.

Recognizing the potential for bias, Busby introduced statistical controls for religious affiliation and confidently declared "we have been able to demonstrate that sexual timing has a unique effect beyond religious involvement." Not so fast. This is a truly unrepresentative sample, both in sampling strategy and its make up, and statistical controls cannot compensate for this.

I asked also what other variables correlated with sexual satisfaction after marriage, besides whether the couple had waited until then to have sex. This information was missing in his paper, although it is crucial to deciding about alternative explanations of results. It is customarily provided in a paper so that readers can come to their own conclusions. Unfortunately Busby did not respond and neither he nor his coauthors responded to three subsequent emails. So, we are left with what was reported in the article.

We are left with survey-or better, longitudinal studies--to attempt to answer the question whether waiting until marriage to have sex improves the sex or quality of the marriage. But in trying to answer this question with these methods, a host of background factors come into play and we are then left to relying on statistical controls in any attempts to sort them

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Exactly. Frankly, in 2017 anybody who still takes social studies seriously to buttress their own privately held opinion is well ... a bit too trusting in the "science" of social studies.

Ecchan makes me extremely uncomfortable. In my mind, she is a rapist. This episode was the second time she had forced sex with Hanabi. Am I the only one with that reading?