"The findings of most of these relationship studies usually don't seem to amount to much more than common sense, raising the question of why anyone is really even
PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Published on Mar 8, 2015
bothering.
Is finding that shorter men do more housework and get divorced less really going to influence whom a woman decides to marry? Of course not.
In the case of relationships, science is used as a way for people to somehow explain and rationalize their fraught romantic partnerships.
Regardless of how exacting the scientific method was carried out during these experiments, you can only learn so much about love and compatibility from an institute who surveyed a few handfuls full of Northern European singles to reach to a conclusion that is being reported throughout American media as if it is an inexorable truth.
Sites gladly publish these studies, though, because it's convenient to do so and also because many readers have a weakness for insight into their relationships, or lack thereof.
If easy answers don't exist, we'll find a way to conjure some up."
you agree? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
