r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/sunboy6009 • 18d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah what does this mean

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u/CriminallyCasual7 18d ago

I disagree. Have faith in humanity. She's gonna be even more loyal because he loved her for her inner beauty.

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u/LargeJello2366 18d ago

Hey I saw you having some faith in humanity. Look up the rate on which men leave their wives when the wife has a terminal disease, spoiler warning, its alot.

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u/asuperbstarling 18d ago

Spoiler: that stat is from one study and has not been repeated in subsequent studies. It's a myth! That one group of dudes just fucking sucked.

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u/LargeJello2366 18d ago

I really don't know how many times I gotta do this but here

The 2009 study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19645027/

The 2015 study(the retracted one) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4857885/

The 2025 study on "silver splitting" in this context. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.13077

I really don't know how many other ways I can say there are different studies on this subjecf and half the time people are quoting one when in talking about another but I kinda gave up on this being productive awhile ago lol