Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · May 8

Divorce, by occupations: flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d... Actuaries, professional estimators of risk and very on brand, are the outlier with the lowest rate.

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Nathan Yau · May 8

They should make a movie about that

Alan Jackson · May 10

And Physical Scientists are the next lowest rate (notes the Physicist).

Rob Mealey · May 10

Looks a lot like profession is a proxy for income, education level, race and social class, which is a proxy for financial stress, social harm from structural inequities and all sorts of other stuff. But cool charts, bro? Actually not really they're both misleading and unreadable. Do better, maybe.