The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Dan Gilbert's uh experiments at Harvard on boredom. He shows that when people have to sit in a room and do nothing with nothing to do except the option of pushing a button on a key fob to to self-administer a painful electric shock, that 25% of women choose to shock themselves rather than being bored. And twothirds of the dudes shock themselves painfully rather than being bored for just 15 minutes.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.