[UnfalseDesign]

So what happens if a physician marries a bartender? Does that increase their chance of divorce or decrease it? (Maybe a silly question but it would be interesting to dig into this shallow report with a much more critical eye.)

[emodendroket]

Cross-class marriages have become much rarer over time than they used to be. But I'd expect a pretty likely outcome of that marriage to be a resignation handed in at the bar.

[ddlatham]

Getting married tends to increase the chance of divorce.

[CocaKoala]

Increases it, obviously; a physician and a bartender who are dating but not married have a zero percent chance of getting divorced!

[thaumasiotes]

> a physician and a bartender who are dating but not married have a zero percent chance of getting divorced!

That's only true if they also have a zero percent chance of getting married.

Getting married will still increase the risk of divorce, because it bumps the odds of getting married up to 100%, but two dating unmarried people have, in general, a nonzero risk of getting divorced.