A Yale Education

Most people, when they hear the words "Yale University," think of super-smart people and hallowed halls of learning and ultra-rich elites reading Shakespeare and poring over the works of Socrates and discovering cures for diseases and more like that. But that's not all that happens at Yale University. It is also the site of many independent scientific "studies" conducted by the professors who work there, the results of which will surely benefit all mankind.

I read about one such study this morning in the Wall Street Journal, whose editors found it important enough to devote two-thirds of an entire page of the paper to it. Naturally I want my readers to be up-to-speed on any and all groundbreaking scientific advances, so I will share the findings with you here:

"When women tell jokes at work that fall flat, they are perceived more sympathetically than men are in the same situation."

There were 200 participants in this study conducted by Dr. Taly Reich, an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Yale School of Management, Yale University. And just to be sure of the results -- wouldn't want to get this important stuff wrong -- yet another study was conducted with a different group of participants and found the same result: Women's humor mistakes are less grievous than men's.

That's some of what's going on inside those hallowed halls. In case you wondered.