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The equation is almost certainly nonsense if taken literally (see Goldberg, Lewis R. "Simple models or simple processes? Some research on clinical judgments." American Psychologist 23.7 (1968): 483. or Dawes, Robyn M. "The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making." American psychologist 34.7 (1979): 571. for instance), but would indicate the directionality: i.e. what sort of changes would tend to increase or decrease humour.
HI Stuart,
You can't assign actual values to the amounts, instead it represents the proportions or relationships of the variables.
Particularly how a lack of Quality Expectation (such as if someone is humble), a lack of low opinion of the Quality Displayed (in paper 1 we use the example of how many people don't laugh at homophobic jokes or teasing because they don't feel that a man being gay is a sign of a low quality), a lack of noticeability (not seeing what happened or not knowing physics for an inside physics joke) or a lack of validity (if the joke is very cheesy or corny) can all single-handedly ruin a humorous moment, particularly if one of the multipliers is 0. Just as how feeling too much anxiety (such as if your mother just died) will kill your sense of humor as well.
I don't see any other method to represent these relationships as accurately in as small an amount of space. So I went with an equation.
I think you're saying the same thing as me...
Probably yes. Oftentimes when someone says something that I thought was addressed in the paper, I'll try to expand on it or say it again in different words to help the original meaning come across.