Research Methodology by Charles D. Cowan, PhD, Managing Partner, Analytic Focus LLC When Shaunti Feldhahn contacted me to help her with her first relationship book (For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men), we began by discussing both her goals and my standards for conducting a quality survey. We…
A Note from Shaunti Feldhahn The entire survey process was done with the guidance and direction of Dr. Chuck Cowan, the former chief of survey design at the US Census Bureau and the founder of the highly regarded company Analytic Focus. We conducted surveys of 1,304 people (652 married couples). All respondents were anonymous and…
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 The Numbers The Good News About Marriage covers five areas of little-known but encouraging news about marriage and divorce,debunking five common myths in the process. Below are data tables sharing some stats central to one of those areas: debunking the 50% divorce rate. There are many different ways to look at the divorce rate. But…
The research for The Good News About Marriage started without us actually realizing it. In 2006 I was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist writing a routine piece about marriage and divorce. I wanted to accurately cite the numbers—which I assumed were around 50%—but my senior researcher, Tally Whitehead, and I were soon very confused by…
A Note From Tally In the beginning, Shaunti asked me to simply look up the divorce rate for a newspaper article she was writing. I started with looking at articles and references published by some well-known governmental and non-profit organizations, including the Census Bureau, the CDC, the National Marriage Project, Focus on the Family, and…
