PBO: Sorry, I didn’t put that well. I meant that the null hypothesis would have to be rejected, meaning that I would obviously not regard that as a statistical result to take seriously. In my posts, I’ve been emphasizing that I talk about statistics that have already been proven valid.
DY: To draw a comparison to something going on in current events, let’s look at Myriad Genetics and its monopoly on the BRCA-1 and -2 genes. Why do people think that’s a problem? Because this company now has exclusive rights to the gene, so that they have no motivation to outdo anyone else to find a cure for breast cancer. In addition, no other company is able to look for a cure.
That, I feel, is basically what’s happening here. NASI takes over the airwaves, saying that the whole reason for the shidduch crisis is the age gap, period. You see it happening here- people say, well, maybe it could have something to do with this, and then others shoot it down screaming, “AGE GAP!” Now, every other possibility needs to fit within the framework of the age gap, and people are specifically focusing efforts on the age gap.
Another issue I have with all these limitations on dating bichlal is just that does this mean that anybody can marry anybody? I was under the impression that there is one bashert (maybe more at different stages according to some shittos), and let’s say your bashert is five years older than you, with this method you’ll never meet him/her. Perhaps this is just my misunderstanding the concept of bashert (which as I’m in eleventh grade doesn’t seem all that applicable to me yet… 🙂 ), but it’s something I don’t really understand. My parents are six years apart- if NASI had been encouraged back when they were dating they may never have met, and does that mean that they would never have gotten married or (scarier idea for me, at least) that they would have married other people?