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Day: May 11, 2011

A killer whale meets Jennifer Grey’s nose: On the generalizability and value of analyzing The New Yorker’s Caption Contest

Co-authored with Phil Fernbach. In last week’s post, we presented an analysis of the captions for The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest #281 (which Roger Ebert won). We hoped that the analysis would help generate a general set of principles that would be useful to folks who want to win future contests. Our takeaway: Try […]