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    9 months ago

    Huge caveat: they only surveyed unmarried 18-49 year olds. Three huge problems are obvious:

    1. Unmarried people are more likely to want to remain unmarried
    2. People who are past typical marrying age are less likely to want to get married
    3. People who are past peak child rearing ages are less likely to want children

    So, no. The headline is inaccurate. If we only survey single 18-49 y.o.s then of course we’ll get higher numbers of people who want to remain unmarried.

    Still an interesting result, but very different from the clickbait headline.