What If The Kids Who Failed The Marshmallow Test Were Smarter Than We Think?

Steve QJ
4 min readMay 14, 2020

I have to admit that I have some serious doubts about the marshmallow test.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, the marshmallow test is an experiment first run in 1972 in which a young child is left in a room with a single marshmallow, and informed that they’ll be given a second marshmallow if they can resist the urge to eat…

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Steve QJ

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