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If I had to go by this article, I would have to conclude that behavioral science is indeed pure bullshit. Example: "Because the boiling point of water depends o
by gweinberg 2y ago
If I had to go by this article, I would have to conclude that behavioral science is indeed pure bullshit. Example: "Because the boiling point of water depends on altitude, you could take it to a very, very high place and the same calorific value might well boil the water." Or, with much less effort, you could put it on top of a burning stove. Claiming that bringing the water to the edge of space still counts as using only the candles isn't being clever, it's bullshit.
- petsfed 2y agoAnd also, it takes forever to boil water at high altitude, for a variety of reasons. The air is usually colder (which means the candle consumes more of its fuel just warming itself up), the oxygen content of the air makes the candles less efficient, and also less oxygen means the candle burns slow enough that radiative cooling of the water becomes a factor, not to mention that while air is generally a poor thermal conductor, low density air is an even worse conductor. I can boil a quart of water in about 5 minutes on my jetboil at sea level, but it takes about 15 minutes at 10,000 feet. I feel like a point-by-point takedown of this article would get tedious, but it would be a good illustration of how smugly wrong this guy is.