No one laughed, I’m too witty for this class.
Given how the cookie crumbles in plenty unis, odds are most of the class didn’t even know about the experiments, so they didn’t know enough to even notice the wit.
Unappreciated in my own lifetime
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lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 days ago
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I would hope the professor would have at least chuckled.
TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Imagine he hears this joke everytime he makes the question…
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Well, they are there to learn after all, he didn’t assume his students knew, and asked if they did. One guy in the class knew. Seems like it’s working itself out, and he just needs to keep that one loaded for later in the semester when people are primed to get it.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 days ago
That’s fair, you’re right. I guess my comment was a bit too bitter.
I always expected people starting a uni course to at least know the very basics of the subject. You know, out of interest. For psychology it would be the basics of Freud (something dreams, id/ego/superego), Pavlov and Skinner (experiments with other animals, focus on behaviour instead of “mind”), Piaget (child development) etc.
But then your comment made me remember psychology classes are rather common for people from other graduations, specially when they’ll become teachers or professors.
Francislewwis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That joke deserved a laugh. The class clearly wasn’t conditioned properly.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it’s worse if they then continue with. “ok, well, it’s interesting you said that his name rings a bell because the experiment…” like you’re too dumb to have even made the joke you did.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
The only acceptable response is “I heard he was good at making bitches wet.”
llamatron@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Or everyone has heard that same joke a thousand times already
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Assuming they all don’t have a very-literal-interpretation-of-jokes-leading-to-no-sense-of-humour, I think people usually laugh appreciatively at someone trying to lighten the mood in settings like this, even when they’ve heard the joke before.
Goun@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Now I’m hungry
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I just drooled all over myself and I have no idea why
Arigion@feddit.org 4 days ago
The thing is it is highly doubtful that Pavlov ever used a bell. Also the experiments were no fun for the dogs.
He redirected the animals’ digestive fluids outside the body, where they could be measured.
captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 days ago
the experiments were no fun for the dogs
I would really expect most experiments to be no fun for animals that are experimented on
Arigion@feddit.org 3 days ago
Since Pavlow is so famous you see often the dogs depicted as cute and someone ringing a bell. Not as fixated pepsin machines. At least in the past that was my mental image. Might be a me problem.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 days ago
FWIW I used to hang out with behavioral psychology grad students, who were in the Skinnerian tradition of operant conditioning research. They mostly worked with pigeons and to transport the birds they used juice pitchers with a few air holes cut into the bottom. I asked them once how they got the birds into the pitchers and they laughed and showed me: they would just open the bird’s cage and hold the pitcher up and the birds would dive head-first into the pitcher, sometimes knocking themselves out in the process.
As part of the research protocol, the birds were kept on a diet that included about 80% of their normal caloric intake; the rest of their food was provided by the reinforcements of the experiments themselves (this was done to maximize the reinforcement effect of the rewards). So those birds were way the fuck into those experiments.
BTW a lot of people confuse the operant conditioning research with the people who put animals into cages and shock them. This is definitely not what BF Skinner was all about. In fact he wrote books on the subject of how punishment is a bad thing for all animals (including humans and pigeons).
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 3 days ago
good pun
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
For the life of me I can’t remember how we got to the subject, but once we were talking about attaching speakers to a dog and I called it “Dolby Surround Hound.” I was very proud of that one and it went completely unacknowledged.
NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Maybe because it already exists. I believe the company is called SoundHound or something
/s
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 3 days ago
Dogby.
mmmberry@beehaw.org 3 days ago
I have no qualms stopping the conversation and repeating my joke. Witness my pun!!
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Did he expect everyone to start drooling over him?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Two people missed the home it seems
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve found that everyone at uni is like this. Humourless weirdos, maybe they just exhaust themselves with drink, drugs and dancing every night and can’t process my jokes.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I would have said “wasn’t Pavlov the guy who had a dog named Ruby Begonia?” and even the prof wouldn’t have known what the fuck I was talking about.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 days ago
Should’ve started drooling right after.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Too obvious, don’t reward someone for going after low hanging fruit…
TheFogan@programming.dev 4 days ago
on a job interview in IT, an interviewer asked me if I understood the difference between TCP and UDP. After giving the best technical explanation I could, I ended with
I could tell you a UDP joke, but I’m not sure if you’d get it.
He said go ahead
I paused, that was it.
Kind of awkward.
I didn’t get the job.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Nothing boosts your impression on people like making them feel stupid. RIP
captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 days ago
I wouldn’t expect this joke to make someone feel stupid if they know what UDP is, so it feels like it was a safe bet
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Yeah, but that’s not what this was.
Interview asked about thing then does not get joke about most basic property of thing. Either the interviewer is incredibly incompetent or incapable of getting a joke.
It’s a weird situation even for a job interview.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hey man, it’s not my fault other people are stupid.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 days ago
I mean, you would think most people would be used to that feeling by now.
Gremour@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I will also tell you a joke about TCP, and if you don’t get it, I will repeat.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This is fucking funny.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I asked someone this that same question in an interview, not so much that it was important, but to see if they had general basic networking knowledge like they claimed to on their resume. Their highly confident explanation was “TCP is for sending, UDP is for receiving” They did not get the job, though not just because of that.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Technically correct! Just leaving out a few details.
whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Did you say, oh well, the way I remember it is Unsolicited Dick Pics versus Tasteful Consentual Penis