Fear of commitment of self-help, Harvard psychologist Deborah DePaulo has written books such as "Singleism" on the stigmatization of single people. The use of the term "fear" or "phobia" imparts an inherent linguistic bias. It recasts specific lifestyle decisions (such as bachelorhood vs. marriage, or a conscious decision to remain childfree by choice) implicitly as generalised, irrational phobias while failing to identify, describe or address an individual's specific motives. For instance, the men's rights movement, citing high divorce rates and expensive alimony and legal costs, would speak not in terms of "fear of commitment" but of "marriage strike" to reflect their position that
Irrational number the coefficients formula_7 are integers and formula_8. Any rational root of this polynomial equation must be of the form "r" /"s", where "r" is a divisor of "a" and "s" is a divisor of "a". If a real root formula_9 of a polynomial formula_10 is not among these finitely many possibilities, it must be an irrational algebraic number. An exemplary proof for the existence of such algebraic irrationals is by showing that "x" = (2 + 1) is an irrational root of a polynomial with integer coefficients: it satisfies ("x" − 1) = 2 and hence "x" − 2"x" −