Re: Marrying someone younger/older…
You do realize the two research articles you linked to, are contradicting each other. And what is ironic is that they are done by the same person. So even he can’t agree on his own research. And have you heard of the statement “correlation does not imply causation”? Just because A and B are somehow related, does not mean that A causes B or vice versa. The two articles presented do not provide sufficient explanation for why the two theories it has presented happen. Since it doesn’t provide that data, it can’t be that accurate now can it? Also the data is restricted to one country’s population and is simply a demographic study. Before you can extrapolate that data to the population of an entire world, it has to be repeated across the entire world, or at least countries from each continent at least. And studies of such nature will probably also show you that banana eaters are more likely to be rich. Does such a study show you how exactly eating bananas causes a person to earn a higher income? Not really, because these two factors aren’t really related. Another thing, do these two research articles take into account prior living situations ie before getting married? What if these couples divorced after the data was accumulated? Does that somehow increase or decrease the individual’s survival years? Here’s the fall out with demographic research; it’s not a longitudinal study. Only with a longitudinal study can you for certain say that yes A causes B. All you’re showing is how A and B exist.
Look buddy if your mom comes to you and says beta I have a rishta for you and she’s even a day older than you, then say no. It’s simple as that. But don’t try to show to the rest of the world that “scientific” research says that you can’t marry that girl because A) she will die before you or B) she will kill you by just being a day older than you.