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Showerthought: there's an actual study on whether cancer jokes land, and the numbers surprised me
I saw a psychology study from the University of Sheffield that looked at how people react to jokes about illness, and the big finding was that the audience's reaction depended way more on who was telling the joke than the joke itself. When someone with the condition made the joke, people rated it funny like 70% of the time, but when a healthy person made the same joke it dropped to around 30%. That feels backwards to me. Should intent matter less than who's talking, or is the messenger the whole ballgame?
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jamief671d ago
As a healthy guy my cancer jokes bomb harder than my dating life.
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