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The marshmallow test

submitted by dingens

1 decade 4 years 7 months 1 week ago

Have kids the patience to resist the temptation of a marshmallow to get another one as an reward?
Even if they do it's so damned hard!

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Damn you machine!

Based on this study in a TED talk I submitted awhile ago I assume:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Don-t-eat-the-marshmallow-yet-Indicator-of-success

HAHAHAHA!!! 1:56 had me laughing!

...and of course the ginger has to dig right in...no regard for anything.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'marshmallow, kids, patience, reward, waiting' to 'marshmallow, kids, patience, reward, waiting, tempation' - edited by EndAll

The suspense is intense!
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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 9:54pm PDT - promote requested by maatc.

sixshot says...

I kinda wonder how my nephew would do on this test. Maybe I should do that... hmm...

This is like saving money. You can spend what you have now and enjoy it, or wait until you're old and have a lot more of it. Egh.

Drachen_Jager says...

A lot of adults fail this test in the big picture, any store that lets you "make no payments for x years" for example, by the time you're done paying the inflated price for the goods in the first place and you pay all the interest you've bought that TV, Sofa, whatever twice over. Same goes for the way a lot of people treat Credit Cards.

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There's a good chunk of *science that has been done on and about this topic. Good article at http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/02/a-possible-link-betw.html

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