Academics study programmers in hunt to understand their sense of humor
Multiple regression models were built to investigate what makes submissions humorous
Screenshot of the top post currently at r/ProgrammerHumor
What Makes Programmers Laugh? Exploring the Submissions of the Subreddit r/ProgrammerHumor is a forthcoming research article about peculiar the sense of humor evinced by people who identify as computer programmers and who gather at a subreddit dedicated to examples of that humor. "Multiple regress…
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