Finding "the one"

[Aemilius Paulus]

You propurted that arranged marriges have a lower divorce rate than non arranged marriges because they were arranged.

A quick bout of google-fu shows that is not the case and that social and cultural factors rule the roost when it comes to divorce.

Then you point to some "study" where "professionals" have taken this into account. I have yet to see this study and think you are fudging the facts to fit with your stoic world view

It is not a favorite tactic of mine you just seem to use the fallacy often.

No, that was one of the points where you correctly applied it, and I did say that you had both success and (IMO) failures in the usage of this tactic. My response was that the factor was already noted by the researchers. It is a blatantly obvious factor too. Instead, I was referencing to that thread on religion where you mis-applied the correlation-causation dilemma.

Also, I already explained why the arranged marriages are more successful, even with the cultural factors aside. The inverse of why cohabitation makes the marriages more unsuccessful. You can re-read that point if you wish, and pick up a sociology/psychology book, where this is a common example.