Are You a Dancer? A Bartender? You’re More Likely to Divorce

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Looking to get married? Steer clear of dancers and find yourself a farmer.

Researchers at Radford University combed through the 2000 U.S. Census to determine which professions have the highest divorce rates. Certain ones make sense — dancing and massage therapy often require close physical contact with someone other than your spouse, which could certainly lead to marital woes.. But who knew working on extrusion machines led to such troubles at home?

(More on TIME.com: Divorce – it’s not if you fight, but how you fight that matters.)

The 5 jobs with the highest divorce rate:

  1. Dancers and choreographers (43.05% divorce rate)
  2. Bartenders (38.45% divorce rate)
  3. Massage therapists (38.22% divorce rate)
  4. Gaming cage workers (34.66% divorce rate)
  5. Extruding machine operator (32.74% divorce rate)

And the profession least likely to divorce? Media and communications equipment workers, with an astounding zero-percent divorce rate. A close second is agricultural engineers, with a 1.78% rate.

See the top 15 at Business Insider. (via Newser)