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Global attention after a female fencer was given the ultimate punishment for refusing to compete against a biological man.

Global attention after a female fencer was given the ultimate punishment for refusing to compete against a biological man.

Global attention after a female fencer was given the ultimate punishment for refusing to compete against a biological man.

there aren't a lot of ethical ways to hurt people in laboratory studies, but one way that you can do it is you can have them stick their hand in ice water and hold it there for a long time. And it turns out that the duration that they can hold their hand is a good measure for how, a proxy for how painful it is to them, right?

there aren't a lot of ethical ways to hurt people in laboratory studies, but one way that you can do it is you can have them stick their hand in ice water and hold it there for a long time. And it turns out that the duration that they can hold their hand is a good measure for how, a proxy for how painful it is to them, right?

there aren't a lot of ethical ways to hurt people in laboratory studies, but one way that you can do it is you can have them stick their hand in ice water and hold it there for a long time. And it turns out that the duration that they can hold their hand is a good measure for how, a proxy for how painful it is to them, right?

And there have been a bunch of studies like this where you assign people randomly to either swear or say words that are not swear words, just kind of neutral words. anodyne words, brown, chair, whatever. And it turns out that the people who are randomly assigned to swear can hold their hands in the water about 50% longer and report substantially lower pain subjectively.

And there have been a bunch of studies like this where you assign people randomly to either swear or say words that are not swear words, just kind of neutral words. anodyne words, brown, chair, whatever. And it turns out that the people who are randomly assigned to swear can hold their hands in the water about 50% longer and report substantially lower pain subjectively.

And there have been a bunch of studies like this where you assign people randomly to either swear or say words that are not swear words, just kind of neutral words. anodyne words, brown, chair, whatever. And it turns out that the people who are randomly assigned to swear can hold their hands in the water about 50% longer and report substantially lower pain subjectively.

So you could imagine that in lots of dimensions of athletic performance, where pain is a limiting factor in what you're able to get your body to do, swearing might actually make it easier to push through whatever that limitation is.

So you could imagine that in lots of dimensions of athletic performance, where pain is a limiting factor in what you're able to get your body to do, swearing might actually make it easier to push through whatever that limitation is.

So you could imagine that in lots of dimensions of athletic performance, where pain is a limiting factor in what you're able to get your body to do, swearing might actually make it easier to push through whatever that limitation is.

There was a fun study that did this. So it wasn't with driving, but they tried to induce a state of emotional arousal and physiological arousal by having people – this was with gaming, actually – have them play either a golf simulator – or a first-person shooter. And then they give them a task where they just had to produce profanity, as many profanities as they could within a minute.

There was a fun study that did this. So it wasn't with driving, but they tried to induce a state of emotional arousal and physiological arousal by having people – this was with gaming, actually – have them play either a golf simulator – or a first-person shooter. And then they give them a task where they just had to produce profanity, as many profanities as they could within a minute.

There was a fun study that did this. So it wasn't with driving, but they tried to induce a state of emotional arousal and physiological arousal by having people – this was with gaming, actually – have them play either a golf simulator – or a first-person shooter. And then they give them a task where they just had to produce profanity, as many profanities as they could within a minute.

And the people who were first assigned to the first-person shooter simulation were able to produce significantly more profane words.

And the people who were first assigned to the first-person shooter simulation were able to produce significantly more profane words.

And the people who were first assigned to the first-person shooter simulation were able to produce significantly more profane words.

I've had undergrads who have looked at this. So they, you know, where they survey, this is not peer-reviewed research, but, you know, anecdotally, where they ask people how offensive they think words are. And separately ask them how much time they've spent on various different sorts of gaming platforms and in certain different specific games.

I've had undergrads who have looked at this. So they, you know, where they survey, this is not peer-reviewed research, but, you know, anecdotally, where they ask people how offensive they think words are. And separately ask them how much time they've spent on various different sorts of gaming platforms and in certain different specific games.