Endlessly Amazed
Endlessly, you know, amazed
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As an avid watcher of old media, one of the situations that often come up is the plotline of computer dating. As presented in old shows, it is usually eager people who fill out questionnaires and, while waiting for the computer to tell them who to date, accidentally find somebody on their own and then have to prove to the corporation or computer that their human choice is the right one. Or, the computer sets them on a date with somebody completely wrong for them based on a mistaken answer, like a Love, American Style episode where two straight guys with ambiguous first names were set up on a date. It was so present in culture, I thought that it might be interesting to see what the history of computer dating was.
I found this article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...eird-tech-computer-dating-of-the-1960s/71217/
I certainly had never heard of the Scientific Marriage Foundation, so I thought I'd look for it, and discovered that it was founded in 1957 by George W. Crane, MD, PhD.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/05/marriage
So it only ran for three years! But it had an effect on pop culture stories for years to come. The same article above indicated that he started the thought process behind computer dating in the 30's:
This website has examples of the Marital Rating Scale tests with both the Wife's and the Husband's Chart. Can your partners pass the test??:
https://dustyoldthing.com/1939-marriage-quiz/
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!!! Argh!!! I remember the newspaper column from this guy, in the 1960s. I hated him and his "boudoir cheesecake" advice. He actively contributed to making me a feminist. A good wife was to subordinate her wishes and desires to her husband in ALL aspects of life. He even gave gratuitous advice on how often a wife should change the bedsheets, based on the types of pyjamas (cotton less frequently than nylon) and types of wifely duties. Argh....
I hope he is reincarnated as a woman, preferably as a ... well, I'll stop with my private, violent revenge fantasies
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