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Mehling1Dane MehlingLong DoanS110 Sec. 27075, T/Th. 4:00Age of MarriageIn the article written by Billy Hallowell, he writes of Princeton University alum Susan Patton writing in the campus newspaper that women should find a husband while attending the university. Patton brings up the point that both women and man are waiting until later in life to get married. Patton believes that college is an ideal time to find a soul mate and that the window to find a significant other is a shrinking one. But skeptics bring up statistics that show life’s challenges lend people to being forced to wait to marry.The article references a 2012 study by IHS Global Insights that found that student loan debt had been a major reason for young people waiting longer for marriage. The study says that “while other forms of debt have been going down since 2007, student loan debt has been growing.” This is one of the biggest reasons that the median age of a first marriage for men was 28.7 for men and 26. 5 for women in 2011 after it was 27.5 and 25.6 in 2007. The article also references the announcement by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that student loan debt surpassed $1 trillion for the fourth quarter of 2011, greater than the previous projection of $867 billion by the New York Fed. The study uses median to find the age that men and women get married for the first time because medians are better less affected by extreme values. Since medians are the middlemost number in a list of numbers, with 50% above and 50% below, it will not be affected by extreme values. A mean, on the other hand, is the sum of the list of numbers divided by the number ofMehling2numbers so extreme values will have a greater effect on the final mean. Medians are also the most stable measure for central tendency, with mode being the most unstable, so finding the median would be the best way to determine the age of first marriage. The article notes that according to Pew, 60% of unmarried men and women want to get married. This shows that it’s not that young men and women want to get married necessarily, but that they are waiting until they are ready financially make a commitment. The wait is longer for today’s millennial generation with the tough economy that they are working through. The evidence, the older median age of marriage, supports the notion that people are waiting for marriage because of the heavy financial burden that college education has placed on their


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