Dr. Suzanna Forwood

They only saw the version that they had.

And then what we did was we asked them, OK, imagine you've had that day.

What are you likely to do next?

And we actually gave them a kind of a list of options.

And the options were to have some alcohol, to eat some chocolate, to get a takeout, to do some kind of an online shopping spree.

We didn't say what they might want to buy on that shopping spree, but, you know, like you sit at the computer and have fun.

Or, and the fifth option was a bubble bath.

So again, all those behaviors, we were very aware that not everyone is going to do all of those things.

Maybe you don't have a bath.

Maybe you're allergic to chocolate.

Maybe you just don't drink alcohol.

Full stop.

So we also separately in the study asked people, would they ever do these behaviors?

So the data we actually analyzed filtered out people that just would never do those things.

Got it.

So if takeout is not an option for you and all the people like you, that data was excluded from the takeout behavior.

Kind of, but also remember that the control condition was the average day.

And you've made a really good point already, which is takeout's expensive.

So actually, did we see them get takeout more on the good and bad days?

Or do we see them taking takeout less on an average day?