Nono I get that, mentally, at the dry intellectual level. But still it's amazing that they get enough "straight face" material to make a final cut like that; it still probably takes lots of acting from the people being interviewed :)

Yeah, but I watched a whole bunch of little reels from her interviews yesterday and today (either there was a reddit wave, or my youtube recommendations felt my interest, or both) - and most people don't seem to be cracking up! Like the dude from the "Soviet onion" clip, for example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9J9xq0MM8Q

How do they do it I wonder? Or is it really all editing :)

How are they even filming that? Are all of her interlocutors so good actors, on top of being real specialist, that they (usually) can keep a straight face through the entire experience??..

This study: n=37 with p=0.04 turning to something like 0.5 after removal of one outlier.