Are Men Funnier Than Women?
…Well, here’s some empirical data. Researchers asked 200 women and 200 men to write as many captions for three caption-less New Yorker cartoons as they could in ten minutes. They then had a panel rate the funniness of those captions on a scale from one to seven. The results: Men had “higher average humor production ability” — i.e., they wrote more funny captions.
Researchers also found that participants who scored higher on tests of abstract intelligence and verbal ability were funnier. What’s more, participants who wrote more funny captions had a higher number of sex partners. Interestingly, this was true for both men and women.
So men are funnier, right?