Professor Scott M. Stanley of the University of Denver in his keynote address to the 2002 Smart Marriages Conference,
What is it with Men and Commitment, Anyway?, cited a survey saying that 85% of divorced couples blamed their breakup on “lack of commitment.” Nadeem Irfan Bukhari, Lecturer on Pharmaceutical Technology for the School of Pharmacy at the International Medical University (IMU), Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia, offers this cartoon that speaks on this vital issue. Nadeem worked for about 10 years as a political cartoonist for the National daily press. I am very pleased that he has consented to contribute cartoons like this with a statistical bent. Thank you Nadeem — very enjoyable!
PS. Having been married now nearly a third of a century, I must counteract my training in statistics that one must never, ever say you are certain about anything. For the record, when my wife asks me this question, I always say “Yes — 100 percent!”