Critique

In Chapter 3 of “Good Humor, Bad Taste”, Mouton de Gruyter presented one of his findings that joke-telling is closely connected with gender. His conclusion is authentic.

He developed a survey among “340 people from all layers of the population” (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006, Page 41), of which the quality and quantity ensure the authenticity of the results. The author found that half of those interviewed agreed that “it was not appropriate for women to tell jokes at any time” (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006, Page 45), and most women in this survey admitted that they often couldn’t tell a joke, which is much more than men did. Therefore, the differences between men and women as to joke-telling are obvious.

As a result, I’m convinced that in general women are worse at joke-telling than men.