Coding:
What makes a story "funny" or "not funny"
"Punch Line"- the end of the story, where the joke is revealed
"Timing"- how quickly or slowly the punch line is revealed
"Emotion"- emotional reponses that can come from the reveal of the punch line
"Word Choice"- in pertaining to the punchline
"Images"- does it create an image in the reader's mind
"Connection"- the connection that can me made/ associated with the story
Classifying:
"Punch Line"
This can be broken down into a few different categories: there can be truthful punchlines (true), ridiculous/strange/obscure punchlines (ridiculous), and the power to explain the story (explanation)
"Timing"
This can be broken down into: too much detail or revealed too slowly (slow), just right (good), or revealed too quickly or not enough detail (fast)
"Emotion"
This is any emotion felt while reading. (Confused, surprised, shocked, satisfied, happy, etc)
"Word Choice"
This is broken down to: multiple meanings of the punchline (double meaning), where the letters or words are switched (switched), and sounding like another popular saying (sounds like)
"Images"
This breaks down into does it create an image (image) or not (no image)
"Connection"
This breaks down to whether the person had a connection in the story in some way. Either from an experience (experience), memory (memory), interest (interest), bad emotion (bad emotion), disassociation (disassociation) or no connection (none)
Pattern:
It was found that stories that were found funny had these elements:
Punchline: True or Ridiculous
Timing: Good
Emotion: Surprised or Shocked
Word Choice: Double meaning or switched
Images: Image
Connection: Memory or Experience
Stories that were not as funny had these elements:
Punchline: Ridiculous or Explanation
Timing: Slow or Fast
Emotion: Confused or Shocked
Word Choice: Sounds like
Images: No image
Connection: Bad Emotion, Disassociation, or None
When looking at the stories it seems that a "funny" story would be:
1 "Frayed Knot": Ridiculous, Good, Double meaning, Image, Experience
4 "Czech in the Male": Ridiculous, Good, Surprised, Shocked, Double meaning, Image, Experience
According to my findings they would like 4 "Czech in the Male" over 1 "Frayed Knot" because it has more elements of a 'funny' story
However when looking at the stories the one that would be more funny would be
When looking at the stories it seems that a "not funny" story would be:
2. "Hollandiase": Ridiculous, Confused, Sounds like, No Image, Disassociation
3. "Gandhi": Fast, Confused, Sounds like, No image, None
According to my findings they would like 3 "Gandhi" over 2 "Hollandiase" because it has less elements of a 'not funny' story
Hypothesis:
The class will chose 4 "Czech in the Male" funniest, then 1 "Frayed Knot" as second funniest, then 3 "Gandhi" as third funniest, and finally 2 "Hollandaise" as least funniest.
Order: 4,1,3,2
Testing Hypothesis:
We shall test it in class!
"Theoretical Story":
It shall be revealed possibly after class!
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