[andrewstuart2]

Seems pretty obvious to me that the amount of contact with the opposite gender plays a huge part. Since most married couples are heterosexual and Engineering is still dominated by men, so contact of any kind is more rare.

On the other hand, dancers and choreographers are very likely to be dancing or choreographing with someone other than their spouse, at a very close physical distance to very fit partners who are nearly always the opposite gender. Jealousy and infidelity probably both play a part there. Same goes for bartenders -- the chances somebody comes to my engineering firm looking for a hot date? Not much, but a bar? That's a little more likely.

And lastly, I had to chuckle at agricultural engineers. All I can picture is a guy designing a combine, alone, in the middle of a cornfield. Good luck meeting someone ;-)

[cozuya]

Its a little ironic that the group of people who laugh at "designing a GUI in visual basic to track the killer's IP address" apparently thinks that an agricultural engineer sits in the middle of a cornfield with a bunch of charts on an easel sketching out what piston goes into what shaft... as opposed to, you know, an office.

[andrewstuart2]

That was just a bit of comedy at the end. I don't actually think that agricultural engineers are likely to have a desk in the middle of a corn field. :-)

[herbig]

I agree. Looking more into the study, massage therapists are up there in divorce rates, as well as "entertainers" which I believe would include actors.

The thought I had about agricultural engineers is that they would tend to be much more religiously conservative than other types of engineers.

[rada]

If that were true, female engineers would have higher divorce rates.

[andrewstuart2]

This is true, but I'm not sure if the study went into male vs female (and I'm not up for paying the $40 to find out). Either way, though, my point about the male-dominated force was that there's less gender diversity, which does seem to correlate with the divorce incidence rate.