1939 Marriage Test

[Marusya]

[Nurzat]

great chart, I will check my wife and myself with it

[Marusya]

If you are wondering who Dr. George Crane was, he founded one of the first modern dating/marriage services: In 1957, he founded the Scientific Marriage Foundation, which claimed to have arranged over 5,000 marriages. Applicants would fill out forms, provide character references and photographs, and interview a local counselor of the foundation, who would provide an assessment of the candidate. The information was sent to the foundation in Mellott, Indiana, which would process the data with an IBM sorting machine, and pair up men and women according to their expected compatibility. Advised by religious leaders of the day, such as Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, Rabbi George Fox and Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, it was one of the first computer dating organizations. Crane's Foundation predated the pioneering Tarr, Crump, and Ginsberg computer dating system by several years.

[Herr Abubu]

Not anywhere near complete and I disagree with much of it, but it's good enough. It's a standard at least, something that's severely lacking today.

[Nurzat]

if my wife doesn't get good score - I beat her. but I hope and think she gets good score

[Marusya]

You can take Dr. George Crane's complete test online. http://www.shipbrook.net/maritaltest/

Dr. Crane surveyed 600 husbands and 600 wives, asking them to list the "chief merits and demerits" regarding their spouses. He summarized the 50 most frequent merits and demerits from each group and weighted them according to his personal bias about which were more important to a harmonious marital relationship. (This personal bias becomes apparent when one discovers that a wife would have to have seven children in order to exceed her husband's score, if each spouse had every merit and no demerits!)

I present this test, therefore, purely for amusement purposes. Remember, the results are based on the values of the 1930s, and are furthermore biased by Dr. Crane's personal views on what is important. So please don't email me to complain if the test calls you a failure as a husband or wife... remember, times and attitudes have changed markedly in the last seven decades!

[meat]

is this a joke?

[crazyladybutterfly]

if my wife doesn't get good score - I beat her. but I hope and think she gets good score

2 users dont have a good sense of humor

[Odin]