realizing now that the Trial of the Gom Jabbar is just an elaborate marshmallow test
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The marshmallow test measures a child's degree of trust in adults' promises. Poorer kids have experienced more uncertainty, so they take the immediate option. Poorer kids lack other career-impacting help, so they have worse average career outcomes. Correlation not causation.
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Replying to @RahimNathwani @tszzl
>The marshmallow test measures a child's degree of trust in adults' promises True but it's still genetic - untrustworthy and short term thinking go together. Parents have genes for both, children inherit both.
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