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Re:Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online by tdrdt on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:12AM (#28902991)
The only experiment is Frederick's experiment.

This was a very long time ago but I can imagine nobody does want to repeat this experiment.

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Re:Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online by ur-whale on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:30AM (#28903092)
> The only experiment is Frederick's experiment.

Wasn't thinking of experiments (obviously), but rather data collected in the population on unfortunate but existing cases to try and correlate lack of affection as a baby with specific behaviors as an adult.

[EDIT]: btw, thanks for the pointer, I had never heard of Frederick's experiment [1]

[1] https://signsofthetimes.org.au/2018/08/fredericks-experiment...

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Re:Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online by FDSGSG on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:50AM (#28940410)
This might be obvious, but despite what the article claims those children didn't "literally die for want of touch".

This is not a real thing that happens.

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