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caitiffhuitre74 t1_j24do59 wrote

i find this funny but I am not sure I get it.Is it important that they’re australian? Is that some sort of trope?

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One_Standard_Deviant t1_j256pur wrote

Duke University is considered an elite university. Stanford is also considered a very elite university: perhaps top-3 and one of the very best. They are also both private, expensive universities. It would make sense that they are trying to out-do each other with expensive research leading to esoteric scientific findings.

University of Wisconsin is a public institution and is considered less elite. It is also often considered more of a "party school." So the joke is that they spent hardly any money at all on their study and that their research findings were more crude.

It's a basically a joke about elite vs. "common man" with the implied point being being that the common man approach is often more practical and correct (to humorous effect).

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amerkanische_Frosch t1_j25nyxm wrote

I think there is also just a bit of : "Elite university researchers considered the issue from the point of view of men having sex with women; U. Wisconsin from the point of view of men masturbating". So the joke goes two ways (elite university researchers are getting laid; U. Wisconsin men are just jerking off).

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