khafra comments on A New Interpretation of the Marshmallow Test - Less Wrong
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It's the trusting suckers who have better life outcomes in the classic experiment, so that would be surprising. But I look at the new study as support for a vase/faces style reframing of the original as "not actually about willpower," rather than as something which is supposed to be surprising on its own.