June 20, 2008

Are you Marriage Material, 1930's Style? This month's edition of the psychology magazine Monitor has an amusing article about a psychometric scale designed in the 1930's for rating the quality of your wife.

It was designed by Dr George W. Crane in an attempt to give couples feedback on their marriages. But although husbands or wives could fill in the scale to rate the wife's 'quality', there is no mention of a similar rating scale that rated the husband's performance. Covered on Mind Hacks, BoingBoing, etc.

posted by The Underpants Monster 16 years ago
  • -5, "Very Poor (Failure)" I think what did me in was belittling my wife to my other wives. But how else am I going to keep them in line? Best to sow the seeds of discord and jealousy, and then let them police each other, I say...
  • And if I want to read the newspaper at the dinner table, then that's exactly what I'm going to do. I work hard all day to keep you crew clothed and fed, and in exchange I just want to read the paper in peace, is that all that goddamn much to ask? I've paid for this paper, I've paid for this dinner, I've paid for this table, this chair, this whole goddamn house that you're all living in, and what thanks do I get? NOTHING. Just griping. Well, you're goddamn welcome, all of you. *goes back to reading Hagar, but it's been totally ruined*
  • Epic FAIL You want me to do WHAT? aha aha hahahahahahaha --Praises marriage to young women contemplating marriage *snorts*
  • I didn't realise they had orgasms in the 1930s.
  • I didn't realise they women had orgasms in the 1930s. *sighs, returns to old copy of 'Mail Order Wives Monthly'*
  • I haven't had an orgasm since the 1930's.
  • woohoo! I am a Very Poor (Failure) of a wife... I'm sure it has to do with putting my cold feet on mr. medusa :P
  • Goddamn crooked stocking seams. IF MCT WOULD STOP SPENDING ALL OUR MONEY ON BOURBON AND ITUNES SO WE COULD AFFORD A GODDAMN MIRROR I MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE THE BACKS OF MY GODDAMN LEGS, YOU LAZY SLOB. Yes. Definitely the crooked stocking seams that did me in.
  • MonkeyFilter: BOURBON AND ITUNES.
  • Praises marriage to young women contemplating marriage Kinda like a pyramid scheme.
  • Kinda like a pyramid scheme that makes me laugh, TUM, but I want to know what happens when I get to the top????
  • The former Mrs. islander was apparently correct.
  • Marriage is a set of earphones, the ones with the big fuzzy old earpieces. Someone who's got the earphones has their own little set of noises to listen to. Those who aren't married look at the earphone people and wonder what it's about. Those who are divorced think they don't have the earphones any more but they do cause those noises don't go away. In any case, sometimes the noise is music.
  • *wants to marry StoryBored in the 1930s*
  • In any case, sometimes the noise is music. Yeah. :)
  • 118 -VERY SUPERIOR!