"Broken-stick" relationships which involved sudden change points did not fit the response data better than smooth relationships obtained from generalised additive or linear models.
Similarly the halting rhythm of the show, skipping like a scratchy record tended by someone preoccupied with other matters, comes across as more an artistic defect than a representation of the couple's stuttering, stuck relationship.
"Time to do something constructive and think of all the women who are genuinely stuck in relationships like this – and much, much worse".
Yet it's harder to admit that many of us have lost months and years doing jobs we hate, maintaining friendships we don't care for, or being stuck in relationships that make us unhappy.
Equally compelling has been the stick insect relationship between Lady Mary and Henry Talbot (dishy Matthew Goode); their rapacious looks and long-legged dance vying for supremacy over an inevitable coupling.
The results, shown in Figure 2, point to hockey-stick-shaped relationships in log-scale between each of the three adducts and benzene exposure.
Women no longer have to stick with unhappy relationships in order to survive.
Even so, the advice has stuck in my head all these years, and I still recite it to single friends who seem to have trouble making romantic relationships stick.
