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Today Stephanie Zvan, newly of Freethought blogs, and I decided to take a paper on in a double-header. The study is a paper which purports to show that humor correlates with intelligence and mating success, and that humor is found more often in males. Hmmm...humor correlates with intelligence, and it's more often in males...but I'm a girl and I'm not sure what that MEANS! Science is HARD, you guys!!
So go check out my post, and check out Stephanie's, as we take this one head on. And remember everyone, correlation is NOT causation. Happy Friday!