Is it really a myth that one of out two American marriages end in divorce?
(p. 55) The divorce rate could very well be 50%. Or even higher. No one really knows. What is known is that all of the research behind the 50% figure has been based on faulty mathematical reasoning or wide-spanning projections. Sadly, the figure has been repeated so many times, from so many different sources, that we just take it as the gospel. For more information on the divorce rate myth, check out truthorfiction.com. Is it true what you wrote about the National Research Group and the silly way they predict Hollywood box office grosses? (p. 58) It’s true. At first, their system of polling 400 people at random was simply designed to gauge audience awareness of upcoming movies. But as Scott says, the desperate film studios soon began using those phone survey results to predict box office figures, a practice even the NRG didn’t endorse. Alas, “logic” and “Hollywood” rarely go hand-in-hand. I don’t even think they’re on speaking terms. Do programs like Move My Cheese really exist? I’d be
