Analysis: Why scientists can’t get a laugh
Humor is hard to pull off in front of a cold audience, full stop. A newly published survey of more than 500 science conference presentations across a two-year…
Humor is hard to pull off in front of a cold audience, full stop. A newly published survey of more than 500 science conference presentations across a two-year period set out to determine whether scientists are funny, which is itself funny, if not the most productive use of time. The results were about what you’d expect: two-thirds of attempts at humor garnered either polite chuckles or straight-up dead silence, and only 9% landed well enough to get most of the room laughing. The biggest l…
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