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This Infographic Reveals the Secrets of the Happiest Couples

The hard research on what makes couples happy… in cute infographic form.

Summary: Have sex, be nice, hang out, laugh, don’t have kids.

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Louie Helm is a Machine Learning Engineer

9 Responses to “This Infographic Reveals the Secrets of the Happiest Couples”

  1. March 9

    Yana Van Cat

    …and give head to royalty

  2. March 9

    Victor Volchek

    Kids?

  3. March 9

    Daria Khaltourina

    the hard truth is that 3:1 is also not ok at all

  4. March 9

    Alexei Andreev

    Mariya

  5. March 9

    Patrick LaVictoire

    Some of these suggestions might be getting the direction of causality wrong.

  6. March 9

    Brian Osty

    The first casualty of statistics is always causality.

  7. March 9

    Ben Kuhn

    The hard research on “things that are probably caused by being a happy couple,” you mean? Only one of the studies cited in that infographic was clearly non-observational.

  8. March 9

    William MacAskill

    I was really pleased by this until I read “Experiencing the death of a spouse is like losing $308,780″ a year.” When an infographic make a claim that’s not even coherent (what does this mean for the vast majority of people who don’t earn $300k p.a.?) it casts doubt on the rest… I really hope I’ve badly misunderstood!

  9. March 9

    Sam Bankman-Fried

    William MacAskill maybe it’s claiming that losing a spouse is 300K times worse than losing one marginal dollar for the median/average/something like that person?