AI Search Summary
This follow-up psychology video analyzes audience responses to a Dunning-Kruger humor-judgment prompt, comparing TikTok and Instagram users’ joke ratings and self-assessed ability to recognize humor. It reports that both platforms rated the first joke similarly low, diverged slightly in response distribution to the second joke, and differed more strongly in self-confidence.
- Main question: Who judges humor better, TikTokers or Instagrammers?
- Short answer / core takeaway: Joke ratings were broadly similar across platforms, but Instagram respondents rated their own humor-judgment ability higher than TikTok respondents.
- Evidence type: Informal audience-response analysis based on a Dunning-Kruger study prompt and professional comedian ratings.
- Search topics: TikTok Instagram humor judgment, Dunning-Kruger audience experiment, joke ratings professional comedians, self-assessment humor, social media psychology.
Common Search Questions
What did TikTokers and Instagrammers think of the first joke?
Both TikTokers and Instagrammers averaged about 1.9 out of 11 for the first joke, while professional comedians in the original study averaged 1.3.
What happened with the second joke?
TikTokers averaged 3.34 out of 11 and Instagram averaged 3.45, basically the same. Professional comedians rated it much higher, averaging 9.6 out of 11 in the original study.
Which platform rated itself as better at judging humor?
Instagram respondents rated themselves higher. The transcript says Instagram’s average self-rating was 66th percentile, compared with 57th percentile for TikTok.
Is this a formal scientific study?
No. This is an informal social-media audience analysis inspired by the original Dunning-Kruger study, not a controlled published experiment.
Key Takeaways
- The page is a follow-up analysis of viewer responses from the prior humor-test video.
- TikTok and Instagram gave similar average joke ratings.
- TikTok showed more polarization on the second joke.
- Instagram respondents were more likely to rate themselves above average at judging humor.
- The original Dunning-Kruger paper remains the underlying research reference.
Transcript
Platform comparison setup
Turns out Instagrammers think they are better judges of humor than TikTokers, based on the hundreds of responses to my last video.
I asked you to rate how funny you thought two jokes were and then rate yourself on how good a judge of humor you thought you were, where 50 meant the same as an average college student.
The creator notes that the jokes came from a 1999 study on the Dunning-Kruger effect, where eight professional comedians rated jokes on a scale from 1 to 11.
First joke results
The first item was more of a riddle than a joke, but that was part of the point.
The eight comedians gave it an average rating of 1.3 out of 11. TikTokers gave it 1.9, with very few going above 3. Instagrammers also gave it 1.9.
Second joke results
For the second joke, TikTokers averaged 3.34 out of 11 and Instagram averaged 3.45, basically the same, with 90% of viewers being hypercritical and giving it a 1.
Instagram had a smoother decline in rating, while TikTok showed more polarization, with 4, 6, and 7 being more common than 2 and 3.
The professional comedians’ average rating for the second joke, from reading it in 1999, was 9.6 out of 11.
Self-assessment results
When viewers rated their ability to recognize what is funny compared with an average college student, the most common TikTok answer range was a humble 44th to 55th percentile, with the overall average at 57%. Only 54% of people thought they were above average.
On Instagram, the most common answer range was 77th to 88th percentile, with the overall average at 66%, and 69% thought they were above average.
The creator also shows demographic breakdowns and asks viewers for theories in the comments.
Additional Notes
Caption context
Replying to @Silver Is Just Fruity Black. The spreadsheet caption notes that this is a Dunning-Kruger humor-judgment analysis.
Hashtags: #science #psychology #jokes #dunningkruger
Keywords and topics
- Dunning-Kruger effect
- Humor judgment
- TikTok versus Instagram
- Audience experiment
- Professional comedian ratings
- Self-assessment bias
References
- Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121