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[Original posts: Contra The Atlantic On Polyamory (subscriber only), You Don’t Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books] 1: Comments I Can Respond To With Something Resembling Actual Statistics 2: Comments I Will Argue Against Despite Not Having Statistics, Sorry 3: Comments By People With Personal Anecdotes 4: Comments On Children 5: Other Comments Micah Zolu writes: I feel like a simpler rebuttal to such an article would be statistics comparing relationship happiness/satisfaction in polyamorous people and monogamous people. Does no such comparison exist which is why one must resort to reviewing n-of-1 studies or raising concerns about people deriving generalizations from a handful of n-of-1 studies? I don’t know of any good published journal articles on this topic. I know of two informal surveys: Aella’s and mine. Aella’s survey includes data from 430,000 people! The average social class is somewhere between lower-middle and middle, so this isn’t just capturing elites, and sho

Highlights From The Comments On Polyamory ... Scott Alexander Feb 21, 2024 89 435 4 Share [Original posts: Contra The Atlantic On Polyamory (subscriber only) , You Don’t Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books ] 1: Comments I Can Respond To With Something Resembling Actual Statistics 2: Comments I Will Argue Against Despite Not Having Statistics, Sorry 3: Comments By People With Personal Anecdotes 4: Comments On Children 5: Other Comments 1: Comments I Can Respond To With Something Resembling Actual Statistics Micah Zolu writes : I feel like a simpler rebuttal to such an article would

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