[gklitz]

> My siblings fail the marshmallow test over and over again as adults.

The marshmallow test is one of those pseudo scientific things that fails to replicate. It’s not actually a thing and has no proven correlation to anything of substance.

[anonym29]

I'd fail the marshmallow test. It's one extra marshmallow I'm losing, who cares?

Now, if it was $100,000/$200,000 instead of 1/2 marshmallows, the outcome would be completely different.

Regardless of whether the stakes are trivial or immense, the amount of thought, deliberation, and care going into the decision will be at least correlated with the stakes, for me.

[c22]

Gp is invoking the pop-culture understanding of the marshmallow test as a rhetorical tool to underline a point. I don't think their siblings are being asked to defer literal marshmallows.

[StefanBatory]

It's easy to fail this test when you know from your experience that you won't get the reward later on anyway.