Like Red Nailpolish? You’d Make A Horrible Wife

Posted by: Catherine Strawn Filed in: news
9:30AM, Wednesday May 14th 2008

In the 1930s, Dr. George W. Crane, who ran a counseling practice and started his own matchmaking service, designed a test to give couples feedback on their marriages. Either the husband or the wife took the test, which rates the wife in various areas. Crane attempted to make the test scientific, but he did admit to using a personal bias and weighted the items he thought were more important in marriage. For example, a wife’s use of slang or profanity results in a five-point deduction from her score, and wearing red nail polish is a minus one. Amelia’s score was -3 and mine was -6. What can I say? I don’t dress for breakfast, and I’m lazy about sewing on buttons. Keep reading to calculate your score. [Monitor On Psychology]

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Kiki T
wrote on May 14 2008 @ 09:49 am: [report]

Love these tests!!!

Ha ha, I am a suck-ass wife too…not a shock. I’ll go to bed angry and flirt with other men….whatever, if they had a section for giving a mean BJ, I would of racked up those points that would of put me in the clear! lol.

Amelia
wrote on May 14 2008 @ 09:50 am: [report]

I bet you would only get points for a rockin’ beej IF you did it with perfectly applied lipstick and coiffed hair. A proper wife must never look dowdy!

LovesIt
wrote on May 14 2008 @ 10:38 am: [report]

Doesn’t this quiz doom you to failure? If 76+ points qualifies as “very superior,” how do you reach that when the merits only add up to 25?

Kiki T
wrote on May 14 2008 @ 10:42 am: [report]

LovesIt, I think you just solved the riddle! ...but unfortunately, you just got a 100 pt. demerit for being smarter than the man that made this test, so according to his rules, spinsterdom for you forever!!!

LovesIt
wrote on May 14 2008 @ 10:51 am: [report]

Haha, not the 100pt demerit! I’d be like the worst wife ever to live…

But look what I found—the full test for wives AND husbands: http://flickr.com/photos/tiabla/2491839696/in/set-72157605047200616/

Catherine
wrote on May 14 2008 @ 11:06 am: [report]

@LovesIt: Sweet. According to the full version, I’d also get points off for being a gossip.

LovesIt
wrote on May 14 2008 @ 11:10 am: [report]

I’d get points off for squeezing the toothpaste at the top (WTF?!).