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Four In Ten People Will Laugh At Anything
Scientists at Washington State University have found that about four in ten of us will laugh at a bad joke, while less than one in 100 will voice displeasure. Researchers believe that we may be amused at being let down by the humor, and that we laugh at how bad a joke can actually be. Dr Nancy Bell made her findings after a team of colleagues told this joke to almost 200 people: "What did the big chimney say to the little chimney? Nothing. Chimneys can't talk." At last I understand how Dane Cook and Carrot Top have careers.
This just in, 2 in 5 people can't reduce fractions. In a similar story, 10 in 25 people are mindless-twits and 40 in 100 people found this /. post amusing.
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