Here’s how: By recording what happens while husband and wife engage in This begs the obvious question, why not administer this test BEFORE Which reminds us, why are gays so fired up from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That creepy feeling you sometimes get while attending a wedding — "this one ain’t gonna last" — is now being expressed in numbers. In an unusual bit of numerical reasoning, a psychologist and two mathematicians at the University of … Continue reading <\/em>That creepy feeling you sometimes get while attending a wedding — "this
\n one ain’t gonna last" — is now being expressed in numbers.
\n
\n
\n In an unusual bit of numerical reasoning, a psychologist and two mathematicians
\n at the University of Washington state that they now can predict the fate
\n of a marriage with high accuracy, identifying shortly after nuptials up
\n to 94 percent of the couples who are destined to split.<\/p>\n
\n a brief conversation, and counting the number of positive and negative
\n interactions, the researchers calculate a compatibility ratio that warns
\n when a marriage is heading for trouble. If negative interactions outweigh
\n good ones by five to one, expect divorce.<\/p>\n
\n allowing couples to tie the knot, thereby avoiding years of useless expense,
\n suffering and emotional trauma. Think Brittany Spears and Jason Allen
\n Alexander would
\n have passed the test? How about Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie? Liza
\n Minelli and, well, anyone?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n to get married? They should
\n be GLAD
\n they have an excuse
\n to
\n avoid
\n this
\n most
\n medievil
\n form of modern torture. And the rest of us should WELCOME those poor
\n bastards (and bitches) to the fellowship of the miserable. Misery,
\n after all, loves company…..<\/em><\/p>\n