Day: April 21, 2014

Are these the funniest cities in America? What does that question even mean? Ay, there’s the rub. The fellas behind the new book, The Humor Code, tried assigning data to the question, though, nevertheless, irregardless of how many qualifiers I put in this sentence. They still went ahead and tried to quantify it. In a separate study led by CU-Boulder professor Peter McGraw, who co-wrote “The Humor Code” with journalist Joel Warner, McGraw’s Humor Research Lab (HuRL) created a Humor Algorithm to rank America’s cities. But what numbers did they use? Specifically, they looked at: Frequency of visits to Cheezburger comedy websites, such...