“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/Rukenau on 2024-09-22 15:26:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the famous study about heartless husbands, which found men were highly likely to divorce their sick wives after serious diagnoses, was subsequently responsibly retracted by authors because of a statistical error. In the corrected model, the difference between divorce rates was minimal.