Task 6: This task was inspired by two news stories that I enjoyed. The first was about a Sudanese man who was forced to marry a goat after being caught having sex with it (http://ow.ly/9DyyP). I’m not sure whether he treated the goat to a nice dinner in a posh restaurant beforehand but, either way, you have to feel sorry for the goat. I’d barely had time to recover from that story when another appeared about an Indian man forced to marry a dog to atone for stoning two dogs and stringing them up in a tree 15 years earlier (http://ow.ly/9DyFn). Why anyone would think it’s a good idea to enter a dog into matrimony with a man with a history of violent behavior towards dogs is beyond me. Still, I wondered whether a goat or dog made a better spouse. I found some other people who had been forced to marry goats and dogs and measured their life satisfaction and how much they like animals. Enter these data into SPSS and save as Goat or Dog.sav.