Bribed 7 yo with Skittles to read a new essay out loud, so I could see which sentences a reader might trip over. It would have been worth doing just for how funny it was. I never realized quite how much my essays sound like me.
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The good news is, he didn't trip over any of the sentences. The bad news is that he only got through 4 paragraphs before getting bored. So it worked out at 1 Skittle per paragraph.
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Maybe next time try snickers? Maybe 5% of a ticket to see Billie eilish for every paragraph. It could have been that boredom was due to incentive not content. :)
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You need to improve the skittle to paragraph reward
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I bet he would have kept going with an exponentially escalating reward scale
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Someone should teach your kid about Minimum Skittle laws
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Love you Paul Good Morning Send the family my prayers and hugs
have the best day
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Behavioral experiments with our 3 yo and 1 yo involving Skittles in exchange for desired behavior: Promise of future Skittles: ineffective Immediate Skittle reward: little success Skittle immediately rewarded to sibling if desired behavior not carried out: extremely effective
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But we feared unintended consequences and stopped altogether.
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Your essays are very smart. You may need a 10 year old for good editorial help.
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You should have promised to give him the entire bag if he finished reading the essay. You missed a chance to teach him about how winner takes all works, and how A for effort doesn't exist in the real world.
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Undocumented feature: beginning of reasonable hypothesis that most readers have roughly the attention span of 7 year olds. New product / partnership idea: Skittles-for-attention delivery platform. Finding testers for the MVP should be NP.
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