{"id":4017,"date":"2018-06-03T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/03\/the-marshmallow-test-what-does-it-really-measure-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:00:31","slug":"the-marshmallow-test-what-does-it-really-measure-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/03\/the-marshmallow-test-what-does-it-really-measure-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? – The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Replication crisis, episode 1382:<\/p>\n

This new paper found that among kids whose mothers had a college degree, those who waited for a second marshmallow did no better in the long run\u2014in terms of standardized test scores and mothers\u2019 reports of their children\u2019s behavior\u2014than those who dug right in. Similarly, among kids whose mothers did not have college degrees, those who waited did no better than those who gave in to temptation, once other factors like household income and the child\u2019s home environment at age 3 (evaluated according to a standard research measure that notes, for instance, the number of books that researchers observed in the home and how responsive mothers were to their children in the researchers\u2019 presence) were taken into account. For those kids, self-control alone couldn\u2019t overcome economic and social disadvantages.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2018\/06\/marshmallow-test\/561779\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Replication crisis, episode 1382: This new paper found that among kids whose mothers had a college degree, those who waited for a second marshmallow did no better in the long run\u2014in terms of standardized test scores and mothers\u2019 reports of their children\u2019s behavior\u2014than those who dug right in. Similarly, among kids whose mothers did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-12N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}