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I think the following is funny, but I'm probably wrong. :)
Study 1: Humor
In Study 1, we decided to explore people's perceptions
of their competence in a domain that requires
sophisticated knowledge and wisdom about the tastes
and reactions of other people. That domain was humor.
To anticipate what is and what others will find funny,
one must have subtle and tacit knowledge about other
people's tastes. Thus, in Study 1 we presented
participants with a series of jokes and asked them to
rate the humor of each one. We then compared their
ratings with those provided by a panel of experts,
namely, professional comedians who make their living
by recognizing what is funny and reporting it to their
audiences. By comparing each participant's ratings with
those of our expert panel, we could roughly assess
participants' ability to spot humor.
Our key interest was how perceptions of that ability
converged with actual ability. Specifically, we wanted
to discover whether those who did poorly on our
measure would recognize the low quality of their
performance. Would they recognize it or would they be
unaware?
Method
Participants. Participants were 65 Cornell University
undergraduates from a variety of courses in psychology
who earned extra credit for their participation.
Materials. We created a 30-item questionnaire made
up of jokes we felt were of varying comedic value.
Jokes were taken from Woody Allen (1975) , Al
Frankin (1992) , and a book of "really silly" pet jokes
by Jeff Rovin (1996) . To assess joke quality, we
contacted several professional comedians via electronic
mail and asked them to rate each joke on a scale ranging
from 1 ( not at all funny ) to 11 ( very funny ). Eight
comedians responded to our request (Bob Crawford,
Costaki Economopoulos, Paul Frisbie, Kathleen
Madigan, Ann Rose, Allan Sitterson, David Spark, and
Dan St. Paul).
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On 17 Oct 2000, at 19:10, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:10:50 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Send reply to: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com From: "Rachel Carmichael" <carmichr_at_hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Bribing the SA (Mythos vs Reality)
> Hm, so from the article I could infer that anyone who thinks that they are
> incompetent and don't know anything really DOES know what they are talking
Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 22:24:47 CDT
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