Instigator / Pro
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rating
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debates
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Topic
#4509

It is commonly stated that 50% of all marriages end in divorce. PRO contends that the actual number is less than 10%.

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The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
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After 1 vote and with 3 points ahead, the winner is...

Nyxified
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Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
Three days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
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Contender / Con
7
1593
rating
21
debates
66.67%
won
Description

The divorce rate in the USA is NOT 50%. It is actually much much lower.

How are you sure that the all married individuals are known within the human society?

The domain of a normal distribution(and therefore the student t-distribution, all of them) is infinite, BTW.

Is this about the annual divorce rate or the percentage of marriages that end in divorce? Because those are two very different numbers.

Debate has been edited based on comments.

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@prefix

You're the instigator.

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@Average_Person

Then let us come to an agreeable debate title, and have at it.

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@prefix

That still doesn’t really solve the problem about the debate question, all of pros and cons will just be survey results thrown at each other with little actual reasoning and interpretation, which isn’t really a “debate”

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@Average_Person

Would you like to suggest a better title? Perhaps "The divorce rate in the USA is actually less than 5%"?

It’s not exactly something that can be arguable… just some surveys can spit facts and tip the entire table

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@prefix

Even if I think it is >= 50%, I’ll still have to prove that. Given that basically every study is saying it is less than 50%, pro would be at a loss of argument here.

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@Average_Person

What do YOU think the actual rate is?

assuming a shared BOP, pro could win easily by citing some report that says divorce rate is <50%??