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PG's distinction between persistent and obstinate is pretty much captured by the ideas of growth mindset and fixed mindset in psychology.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/growth-mindset

My question is always, how do you get someone with a more fixed mindset attitude to adopt a growth mindset way of relating to the world? It's so hard, but it makes such a difference.

The hypothesis here is that bungee jumping -> stress -> slowed perception of time -> increased ocular frame rate -> increased ability to perceive short frames. It's either difficult or impossible to properly test for stress, perception, and ocular frame rate (whatever that's called), so you use the ends of the chain.

If you get a positive result with your wacky experiment, then you go back and control for confounding variables. If you get a negative result, you can't really conclude anything other than you need more grant money to do some other click bait.

This is just how the business of science works. It's sort of like the economy. You try a bunch of random things as quickly as possible and follow up on what looks promising. Or, like in this case, you just try to do click bait and you skip even really bothering with delivering value at all. It's stupid and I don't like it either.

All objective observations of time involve reading numbers. You can't test subjective perception.

Ok ok, so the experiment actually just tested whether an individual frame of a high frame rate display could be read while while falling. Since it could not, we do not have objective evidence for the subjective "time slowing down" experience. We just know that there was no difference from the control, i.e. subjects were unable to read display at high frame rate under normal conditions.

That's all you know. Sure, maybe stressful conditions make it harder to read, but then again the watch is stationary with respect to the eye while falling.

>> read the watch

> It's not testing the perception of time

It's literally testing the perception of time?

Sure, I agree. Animals don't wear clothes either!

That said, sometimes you might want to take a chance and not wait for the results of an experiment to be known. ChatGPT calls this a "temporal dilemma".

A good way to figure out how we are "supposed" to parent might be to study primates and other mammals.

Didn't a lot of citizens of Russia, China, etc. get hurt in communist revolutions? How is your revolution going to be different?

DRM isn't effective if the source is available.

Jobs was growth stocks, Cook is fixed income. Each has their place, and there are good and bad versions of each.

> the candidate excelled at selling themselves and negotiating

sales / executive track