hey psst. hey you. the marshmallow test did not actually test in any meaningful way for kids' actual baseline impulse control levels and instead they found that kids from food insecure backgrounds failed the test at far higher rates than food-secure kids. just a little fact

i just saw a tweet that mentioned the marshmallow test and my autism was like "hold on while i uhhhhhh infodump"

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nice

jtwitter's number humor has ruined me XD

also, somethin else to remember re. the original tweet, it's only called the marshmallow test because most of the kids chose marshmallows between marshmallows and pretzels!

also also, someone linked a great source! https://twitter.com/MsMcMillan1066/status/1283800047814152192

also ALSO also, i know the original test was actually about delayed gratification and not impulse control, i literally just forgot the words for delayed gratification ;-;

hey, i really have to mute this post <3 im really glad it's helping yall!