Morendil comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - LessWrong

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Comment author: Morendil 24 November 2012 10:42:31AM *  7 points [-]

The marshmallow studies and all that.

Take those with a grain of salt.

The people in question who do this are typically low status and low income.

There's plenty of evidence (e.g.) of higher-income people engaging in similar behavior.

Comment author: RobbBB 25 November 2012 02:37:27AM *  17 points [-]

Yes. The take-away point is that the children's patience with marshmallow promises and their long-term life success may be correlated because they're mutually determined by whether adults and peers in their life are trustworthy and reliable, more so than by a variable of Intrinsic Self-Discipline.