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Heeeyyyyyy! Not funny!?! I wrote that article... although I didn't write all of the jokes.
Seriously though, by today's standards the humor might not be that funny. The humor was "of the time" from the late 80's, early 90's. There has been a bit of research which shows that humor will vary over time because it will relate to society/issues/politics/media of that particular time. An example that I like to use to help support this is the book Gulliver's Travels. These days, it's more of a fun, entertaining, children's story. When I was in Ireland last year, I learned that at the time it was written, it was a MAJOR slam against the establishment.
An another note, you make a good point about the audience being able to use the extra time to absorb the material, and therefore score higher on the test. However, the amount of blanked-out time was pretty insignificant, the overall length of the show was still the same, and the amount of time before the tests were given was kept standard, so I'm not sure that was the reason for the difference in scores between the "humor" groups and the "non humor" groups. If I ever had the time (yeah, right), it would be fun to research that angle a little further.
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From: Christine Shupla [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:50 PM
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That study in the planetarium tested for a show with and without specific
jokes. (The results suggested that humor interfered with learning.) I think
it implied that for the show without the jokes, they simply blanked out the
volume. Perhaps giving the audience that extra time to absorb the content
resulted in the higher scores, not removing the actual jokes. (btw, I'm not
sure they all qualified as humor; some of them weren't that funny.)
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This might be relevant....
Fisher, M.S. (1997). The effect of humor on learning in a planetarium.
Science Education (Special issue on informal science learning) 81(6),
703-713.
-Kirsten
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Hello-
I am looking for instances of humor in large format, either humor that
you
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