In a pilot study utilizing the Personality Assessment System, WAIS data for 76 couples seen in marriage counseling are analyzed. Husband's scores, wife's scores, and therapeutic outcome are used to classify the couples into contingency tables, which are then treated using remarkability statistics. The hypothesis that the results will be interesting is supported, and a few individually remarkable effects are isolated, including effects describable as “assortative mating” as well as sex differences and certain within-couple configural effects. In view of the large number of marginal findings, the most important implication is that a larger-scale study will be even more interesting.
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