HumorQ
Bob DiPasquale grew tired of entering caption contests and learning that his entry was only infrequently among the chosen. "I took off my comedy hat, and put on my application developer hat and realized, with the internet, you can leverage people power and create a reasonably accurate humor quotient.”. Bob went to work creating HumorQ.com where members are forced to vote from five captions for the three previous day contests before they can submit their own entries for today's contest.
A member's humorq is calculated by both how often their captions are selected, and how well they do at guessing the most popular of the five choices they had voted for.
The web site is just ramping up, and there really isn't enough members to call the data accurate yet, but Bob sees a potentially exciting future for the site. As soon as our free membership numbers grow, we will have a number of exciting developments enabled. Those include humorq score competition among and between groups, and a database with valuable information about humor. Bob explains "For example, we will have some real data about the funnier sex, the funnier political affilliation, and which college campus really has the funniest students."
Membership is free, so in the interest of science, go visit humorq.com. It will make a fun creative exercise.
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