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Are men funnier than women?

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We usually tend to think thatmen are more fun than women. One of the arguments used by those who support this idea is that, throughout evolution, selection favored men capable of making people laugh because this ability gave them an advantage when it came to finding a partner. However, a new study by Laura Mickes of the University of California, San Diego (USA), seems to put an end to this stereotype.

In an experiment published in the magazinePsychonomic Bulletin & Review, Mickes and his colleagues selected 16 men and 16 women to write sentences from humorous vignettes published in the magazine New Yorker. Then, when a second group of subjects scored them to develop a ranking of the funniest phrases, the researcher verified that lMen scored just 0.11 more points, a negligible difference. And this despite the fact that 90% of the evaluators agreed with the statement that “men are funnier.”

In addition, the study revealed that men scored slightly higher for jokes written by men than women. “This is bad news for guys, who believe that being funny serves to impress girls and really impresses other men more,” says Nicholas Christenfeld, co-author of the work.

In a second experiment, the scientists showed thatbiases about humor and genderThey are very present, since when the subjects were asked to guess the sex of the author of the sentences, the least funny vignettes were attributed mostly (and erroneously) to women.

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