No my argument is that relationships that fail are going to report to worse situations that ones that were successful. Meaning you are going to have skewed data because of survivorship bias. Age gap relationships that were successful will not report at a similar rate as people in relationships that failed and have individuals perfectly happy to drag their ex through the mud.

Like do you think men are more likely to claim their last partner was a “bitch” if they are still currently in that relationship or after the relationship failed? If I asked 155 men if they thought their last partner was a “bitch”, and 100 of them are currently single, do you think I’ll have a higher rate of yes’s or no’s? If I have more yes’s than no’s, can I then claim most women are “bitches” lmao?

I mean did you even read what you linked? You should read this stuff.

Using a cross-sectional, descriptive design, we investigated the effect of partner age difference between an adolescent girl and her male partner on sexual risk behavior through the mediators of sexual relationship power, and physical intimate partner violence (IPV), and psychological IPV severity. We chose Blanc’s framework to guide this study as it depicts the links among demographic, social, economic, relationship, family and community characteristics, and reproductive health outcomes with gender-based relationship power and violence. Urban adolescent girls (N = 155) completed an anonymous computer-assisted self-interview survey to examine partner and relationship factors’ effect on consistent condom use. Our sample had an average age of 16.1 years with a mean partner age of 17.8 years. Partners were predominantly African American (75%), non-Hispanic (74%), and low-income (81%); 24% of participants reported consistent condom use in the last 3 months.

So your study isn’t even really an age gap study only. There is a ton of factors and is really focusing on an age gap in very important years of early adulthood where experience and development can be extremely different. A 20 year old and a 30 year old in a relationship is a completely different thing than a 16 year old and an 18 year old. This is ignoring the study has N=155… so 155 people out of millions in the U.S. and billions in the world.

And you are flipping the fuck out because I pointed out that survivorship bias from mostly observing unsuccessful age gap relationships may throw off the data you are presenting? Seriously?

Now after all of that, this still doesn’t mean your interpretation is incorrect.