>According to studies on couple relationships, it is possible to predict with an accuracy of up to 90% if the couple is going to divorce by studying the interactions, specifically the relationship between positive and negative interactions between the couple
Apparently the studies that were used to reach that conclusion does no such thing and were hilariously flawed.
>The upshot? What Gottman did wasn’t really a prediction of the future but a formula built after the couples’ outcomes were already known. [...] The fundamental problem is that no matter how many equations, even quite similar ones, Gottman generates, we have no real idea of his forecasting power because of the way he reports his data
literally horoscopes for tech bros. I am starting to be slightly concerned that there's actually people out there who think some sentiment analysis python package is going to tell them what their individual relationships are like.
>According to studies on couple relationships, it is possible to predict with an accuracy of up to 90% if the couple is going to divorce by studying the interactions, specifically the relationship between positive and negative interactions between the couple
Apparently the studies that were used to reach that conclusion does no such thing and were hilariously flawed.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/03/a-dissection-of-joh...
>The upshot? What Gottman did wasn’t really a prediction of the future but a formula built after the couples’ outcomes were already known. [...] The fundamental problem is that no matter how many equations, even quite similar ones, Gottman generates, we have no real idea of his forecasting power because of the way he reports his data