Abstract

Humorous captions for still pictures from old movies were produced by 38 college students. Either 2 or 10 captions for each of three pictures were required. There was a less than 1% overlap among the captions, demonstrating that the task results in highly divergent answers. Average caption funniness improved with output order, indicating that in a task leading to divergent responses, quantity can lead to quality.

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