Andrew Huberman· PhD
Now, the dirty little secret about the marshmallow experiments is that no child waited the full 15 minutes that the experimentter was gone.
Verbal pushback — no audited source on record.
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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.
Now, the dirty little secret about the marshmallow experiments is that no child waited the full 15 minutes that the experimentter was gone.
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