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Re:New study disavows marshmallow test’s predictive powers by karaterobot on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:42PM (#30420997)
A good test for whether a psychological or sociological study may turn out to be hard to replicate is: does it make a sweeping claim about something as complex as human beings? If it's not tentative, incremental, wrapped in caveats and conditionals, I don't put much weight in it anymore.
Re:New study disavows marshmallow test’s predictive powers by chinchilla2020 on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:11PM (#30421975)
Also, they only tested each child once. The same child might behave different based on how hungry they are every time it is offered.
Re:New study disavows marshmallow test’s predictive powers by goatlover on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:05PM (#30421240)
Pretty much this.