As someone who loves sitting quietly and thinking to the point where when I get too busy, lack of it is what first starts to impact me negative emotion wise, I have to question what can be taken away from that study.
I can safely and easily sit quietly at home. I can't safely and easily electro shock myself at home. It's something I'm curious about and would try. You'd need to have me come back a few times and see what I pick when the electroshock option is no longer a novelty. Even then, you're going to have to be careful that there's no way this could turn in to a competition of sorts where I get the idea to try to outlast the other participants or even just myself seeing how much I can take.
This would be like determining that I prefer my burgers to have weird chutneys and exotic ingredients on them because that's what I order at restaurants given the option. No, plain cheeseburger with maybe some tomato or pickles is way better. But I can and do make that myself, often, and imo better than must restaurants do. I'm ordering something different that I don't do at home, not picking my favourite choice.
Or "here's your favourite movie you've seen a ton of times and have on your hard drive. Here's another one you've thought about watching, haven't bothered to, but if you don't watch it now you'll probably never have another chance; which one do you want to watch?" Pick the latter and they clap themselves on the back for their miraculous favourite movie changing ability.
I can safely and easily sit quietly at home. I can't safely and easily electro shock myself at home. It's something I'm curious about and would try. You'd need to have me come back a few times and see what I pick when the electroshock option is no longer a novelty. Even then, you're going to have to be careful that there's no way this could turn in to a competition of sorts where I get the idea to try to outlast the other participants or even just myself seeing how much I can take.
This would be like determining that I prefer my burgers to have weird chutneys and exotic ingredients on them because that's what I order at restaurants given the option. No, plain cheeseburger with maybe some tomato or pickles is way better. But I can and do make that myself, often, and imo better than must restaurants do. I'm ordering something different that I don't do at home, not picking my favourite choice.
Or "here's your favourite movie you've seen a ton of times and have on your hard drive. Here's another one you've thought about watching, haven't bothered to, but if you don't watch it now you'll probably never have another chance; which one do you want to watch?" Pick the latter and they clap themselves on the back for their miraculous favourite movie changing ability.