He's just confused because he can't figure out how to sniff their asses.
Posted on 06/24/2019 7:46:41 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
:-)
I tried with beer and failed miserably.
Someone has way too much time on their hands.
“Hair dye and sweet treats might seem frivolous, but purchases like these are often the only indulgences poor families can afford.”
What does this even MEAN?
Never heard of this test before, but while I believe I likely would have waited to double my money, the test is biased against kids who like marshmallows.
I don’t like marshmallows, too sticky on my teeth in both “natural” and “creamy” versions.
Chocolate might be a better universal draw, but then again would it be milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or the new “ruby red” chocolate, the last of which I DON’T like.
Dark. Dark. Dark. 70%, minimum. ;)
That ‘Marshmallow Test’ was something made up by LibTards in the 1960’s.
Being ‘recycled,’ today.
Sounds like the new version is a better experiment and found a hole in the first one.
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Feynman described this exact process of never accepting a “long accepted” baseline test, but instead duplicating it to look for flaws before going onto new conditions.
Yeah, there is also one other fly in the ointment when it comes to the Stanford Marshmallow test, and that is factors of trust in strangers and/or authority figures.
There are two ways to fail the test. The first is to immediately eat the marshmallow, and the second is to refuse to participate. Some kids won’t touch the first OR the second marshmallow.
IOW, the results are exactly the same as the earlier study, using a different pool of kids -- but the semantics used in the conclusion have been spun. Research my ass. Thanks Diana in Wisconsin.
Or do socio-economic outcomes depend on the ability to delay gratification?
Time preference is an evolutionaty adaptation. Not everyone has it.
I don’t like marshmallows...and I don’t want a 2nd one...would I fail the test ???
“Dark. Dark. Dark. 70%, minimum. ;)”
That’s pretty hard core but I’ve read that the higher the percentage of cacao in the chocolate, the better it is for you. And Hershey’s special dark chocolate does not qualify.
All these classic psychology tests are a bunch of bunk.
He, together with a sibling and hand wagon, would get pushed out of the house on an early, dark winter morning to travel a mile to the railroad tracks. They would then scrounge along the rails to find little lumps of discarded coal, load up the wagon, out-race the yard bulls, and head home with their prize.
With the coal deposited in the kitchen stove, morning breakfast for Grandfather and meager heat for the household was forthcoming.
The gist of this, and many other episodes of survival during the Depression, is that poverty is not the excuse the Leftists would have you believe. Sense of nuclear family, religion, and perseverance led this and other families to success in the long run, to achieve a piece of the American dream, and to see the offspring do better than the parents.
Perhaps the inability to delay gratification is the reason they are poorer.
He's just confused because he can't figure out how to sniff their asses.
Delayed gratification is future orientation, and future orientation has been decried by the left as inherently racist.Therefore, any such prior research and testing must be discredited. I suspect the devil in the details that is being glossed over resides in the “did no better” claim. Might want to break that one down, what comprises “did better” or “did no better?”
Maybe the original test had marshmallows made from cane sugar as opposed to today’s HFCS.
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