And although the laugh track seemed to be a reasonable rule of thumb in the Dartmouth work, that may be only because the subjects had been prescreened to like the cerebral, ironic style of the sitcoms they viewed.

• 虽然凯利的研究喜剧反应大体上属于合理的推论，但也有可能是受试者对于这类讽刺性的喜剧早已有概念。