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From: jcg@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Like 'em stupid?
Message-ID: <128@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 08:36:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 19 08:36:27 1983
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	The supposition by the Wall Street Journal that men
married to career women have a higher incidence of heart failure
(or some such ailment) than men married to less educated women,
may be valid.  You can prove or show nearly anything with
statistics and it is likely that the WSJ article has an underlying
basis in fact.  Fact, yes. Truth, perhaps.

	On the other hand, I am amused by the immediate reaction of
readers of this group.  The assumption that the WSJ article was indeed
valid in its supposition seems universal and the discussion now focuses
on why.  I find this quite humorous in the light of how likely we
accept seemingly counter-intuitive conclusions when provided from a
reputable source.  Has anyone stopped to question the motivation for
such a study?  Has anyone pointed found out exactly what data was used?
How it was collected?  What the conditions of the study were?
(For instance, were the educated couples engaged primarily in high
stress jobs, such as Brokerage or Insurance, while the couples with the
dopey spouse running vacation restaurants in Florida?)  Has anyone
wondered why the WSJ (and thus, the American business community)
would be gathering such data?  I, for one, am slightly suspicious.

	Regardless, if the supposition were true, and I had the choice
between living an extra 10 or 15 years with a woman whose concept of
an intellectual exchanged is easily met by most Dukes of Hazard scripts
and dying earlier, but after a life with a woman who would scold me
for misinterpreting Kafka's dialectic and parry my sarcasm with
humorous riposte then I will choose the PhD every time.

			I cannot believe any self-respecting
			intelligent male would actually prefer
			marrying a dumb female.  Dumb people
			are soooo boring, for Goodness Sake!

				Jim Grams
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