The BDLPSWDKS Effect

[[A person with a ponytail stands in front of a projector screen with an image of a speeding firetruck hurtling toward a person on it. They hold a pointer, and indicate towards the image.]] Ponytail: The Bernoulli-Dopper-Leidenfrost-Peltzman-Sapir-Whorf-Dunning-Kruger-Stroop Effect states that if a speeding fire truck lifts off and hurtles toward you on a layer of superheated gas, you'll dive out of the way faster if the driver screams "RED!" in a non -tonal language that has a word for "firefighter" than if they scream "GREEN!" in a tonal language with no word for "firefighter" which you think you're fluent in but aren't. {{Title text: This well-known effect has of course been replicated in countless experiments.}}

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