Who makes the financial decisions in your household? 'As the man of the family, I do,' claimed 57 per cent of the married men in Hong Kong. 'We make the financial decisions jointly,' said 70 per cent of the married women in Hong Kong.
One conclusion of this real-life survey is that the different sexes are unclear about who, in fact, does make the financial decisions.
Honesty and plain dealing have been much on my mind lately, what with the news events.
There is the dispute between United States President Bill Clinton and women he may or may not have fondled.
There is the Xinhua news agency's astonishing claim it had no files on Emily Lau Wai-hing, and the Secretary for Justice's controversial decision not to prosecute Xinhua or a businesswoman friend of the Chief Executive's.
A firm called the Ming Teh Flag Co exported flags to the US with instructions to cut off the country of origin labels and add fake 'Made in the USA' labels.
People just are not behaving in a simple, straightforward way anymore.