This new meta-analysis of 28 studies finds that men are funnier than women. The gap, however, is not large (Cohen's d = .32). To get specific, 63% of males get more laughter than the average female.
The authors explain the difference in evolutionary terms: Women are choosier than men when selecting mates, and humor serves as an indicator of mental fitness that is not easy to fake. You're funny or you're not. This pressure has supposedly selected for men who can make people laugh.
Are gun owners mentally ill?
Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...
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Via a reader at iSteve, it looks like this might be the vocabulary test used by the General Social Survey. (Someone please tell me if I'...
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In the comments in the last post , some readers contended that Jews are not ethnocentric. Using the same question I used in the comments se... -
Here's the second set I promised. A reader suggested that the first set tends to be older, and it is among younger blacks where you see ...
