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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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Christine Shupla
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Arizona Science Center
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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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