QotD

[circuit_four]

"In 1939, University of Iowa graduate student Mary Tudor began an experiment with local orphans, warning them that they were showing signs of stuttering and lecturing them whenever they repeated a word. The children became acutely self-conscious, and many began to stutter, fulfilling the theory that “the affliction is caused by the diagnosis.”" --

Comments

[ninjer]

We're super-glad you stuck around, too!

[_wastrel]

I hope that this still holds true.

The latter statement, I mean. I mean, the orphans who are still alive may still be stuttering too, but I don't have any particular reason to hope they do.