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November 12

Laugh meter ?

Does anyone rate sitcoms, comedies, etc., by measuring how much viewers (in the audience or at home) laugh when watching ? If so, where can I find the results ? (If you want to know why I would prefer those over other ratings, those indicate a show is "popular", but that might very well be for reasons I don't care about, like having celebrities in the cast, being in a prime viewing slot between other good shows, etc.) StuRat (talk) 04:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With or without the laugh track? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:03, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Without, of course. The object is to identify shows (and episodes) which are actually funny. (I realize that "funny" is an opinion that will vary by audience, but those which generate few laughs I can safely skip.) StuRat (talk) 05:19, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK, the only studies of audience reactions in media are done through focus groups: You get a group of volunteers to sit in a room and rate the programs on a number of factors. I do not know that the results are necessarily published publicly: show producers probably keep such market research in house and don't necessarily publish it. --Jayron 32 13:23, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Measuring laughter directly would be difficult (what's better, two chuckles or one belly laugh?) but the mood worm is used to gauge how much people actual enjoy what they're watching. That's a dial that the viewer holds, which they turn up or down depending on how they feel. Perhaps even closer is Sentiment analysis – trying to work out how people feel by what they post on social media. It looks like some companies do provide this for TV shows, but you have to pay. Smurrayinchester 14:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This page [1] says one Yoji Kimura at Kansai university has developed a method for quantifying laughter, and also distinguishing real laughter from fake laughter. I cannot find any original research articles about the project/device, maybe they are in Japanese. SemanticMantis (talk) 22:22, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Charlotte Eiram - Musiker

Charlotte Eiram er en danmarkskends sanger og sangskriver der bl.a. har udigvet nummeret Ikke uden dig.

Charlotte har varmet op for Sash! og spillet med DJ Bailar Project. Sunget kor for Hampenberg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arelstone (talk • contribs) 14:49, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably the question is "Why doesn't she have an article?" The answer is WP:MUSIC - she does not satisfy our rules for notability. We do have a reference to one of her songs in Girls on Top (album). Tevildo (talk) 20:46, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]