If this woman stays off her smartphone for an entire year, she'll win $100k
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Re: If this woman stays off her smartphone for an entire year, she'll win $100k
#2Not difficult given the incentives. But the lie detecting sounds a bit worrying.
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#3Why do people need to be rewarded money to do something like this? Why can't the reward be a better social life or better mental health? As the person says in the article, "Getting away from the smartphone has been freeing, and it has opened my eyes and made me more aware of some of my other bad health habits." That's a pretty good reward for most. I'd take that $100k and use it to spread awareness about social media and its health effects. All a project like this does is reinforce the idea that people should only do things for monetary gains, including bettering their body and mind.
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#4Not difficult given the incentives. But the lie detecting sounds a bit worrying.
It blows my mind that people still use the "lie detector" (polygraph) for anything.
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#5I have been doing that for the last 40 years, give me $4M! But if fixing other people's phone counts, I'm out of luck.
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#6I have been doing that for the last 40 years, give me $4M! But if fixing other people's phone counts, I'm out of luck.
Smartphones haven’t existed for 40 years!
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#7This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. They have no way of knowing if she did it. They gave her her a flip phone and at the end of a year they're going to have her take a polygraph test. That's the setup. Wow.
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#8Why do people need to be rewarded money to do something like this? Why can't the reward be a better social life or better mental health? As the person says in the article, "Getting away from the smartphone has been freeing, and it has opened my eyes and made me more aware of some of my other bad health habits." That's a pretty good reward for most. I'd take that $100k and use it to spread awareness about social media…
If you want people to do it as a marketing stunt for your flavored-water company and want press about it, throwing money around helps with that.
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#9Re: If this woman stays off her smartphone for an entire year, she'll win $100k
#10Not difficult given the incentives. But the lie detecting sounds a bit worrying.
Incentives say she will pass the lie detecting test. It would be a PR disaster if she said she didn't use it and the sponsor wouldn't want to pay.
It just gets more promotion than paying out $100K directly.