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, and originally published at PeterMcGraw.org In a previous 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 [...]