Childish voters get what they deserve

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Fifty years have passed since the Stanford marshmallow experiment, perhaps the most famous of all psychological tests. Small children were offered a choice between one marshmallow now or two if they could hold off for 15 minutes. (Different times were used over the course of the experiment.)

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