Correlation is not causation.
"Marrying before children more than doubles young adults’ odds of being in the middle or top income tier, after adjusting for education, childhood family income, employment status, race/ethnicity, sex, and respondents’ scores on the ... AFQT." https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IFS-MillennialSuccessSequence-Final.pdf …
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of course neither is the cause and both are consequences
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In general, just about anything that's a proxy for impulse control, scrupulousness, or similar is going to have a huge correlation with outcomes. A car insurance actuary once told me that driving history is only the #2 predictor of accidents. The #1 is credit score.
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yeah, it's kind of sad that someone wrote up a 36-page report that can be summarized as 'low conscientiousness leads to poor life outcomes.'
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Correlation or causation...
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So many behaviours of the thriving parts of society that are not touted as examples to follow out of fear of being called "judgemental" and "insensitive". Dan Quayle was right. Bring him back.
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That time when people agreeing with you say "Dan Quayle was right. Bring him back."
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What are your thoughts on living together before marriage?
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Selection effect. People who are responsible in family formation are conscientious and this is reflected in other observable aspects of their lives.
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