That’s one of those things where I want to be mad but I think both of those voice actors do an amazing job.

Oh wow, what a disgusting thing to do!

If anyone is interested, I’m pretty sure Daniel Mallory Ortberg over at Slate has answered similar queries, but, shall we say, in a kinder way.

Women with husbands are a marginal, underrepresented segment of the population. Thankfully, former competition show dancer and frequent podcast guest Julianne Hough has broken down our community’s barriers

Sir, I have ADHD, I am absolutely absentminded with everything. And I have no idea why setting an alarm for someone’s medication is “snarky,” I was being completely earnest, I use an alarm to remember to take my own daily medicine, a lot of people use the same method.

The equivalent in this scenario is if there were no checklist for flying, it was just assumed that all “good” pilots would obviously notice if something was off with their planes, and that all mechanical mishaps are just the result of a negligent and incompetent pilot. What people here are advocating is the equivalent…

It seems that we have reached an impasse in this conversation, as we clearly have very different philosophies on assessing and assimilating information. Yes, I tend to go with well sourced and documented information that has been vetted via the scientific method over the “gut feeling” of an internet stranger. Thinking…

Read the WaPo article Tracy linked in this article and come back if you have questions.

Absolutely! But that’s why I think we should start to take away the stigma around this stuff, so people can move past the emotions and get to actual solutions. It’s better to admit that you’re flawed and to seek ways to overcome those flaws (or work with those flaws), than to wall yourself off and say, “Well that…

Agreed! I think people tend to rate themselves as much more careful than they actually are. Hence how we all believe that we’re the only driver on the road going the appropriate speed and everyone else is too cautious/a maniac.

Have you read the WaPo article Tracy linked to in this article?

What I personally imagine could be true or not is of little relevance. In the WaPo article the experts that were interviewed seem to suggest that the reason is doesn’t happen more often is mostly because of dumb luck. People who admit it could happen to them, who then take actual preventable measures such as the ones…

If you’re interested in other options people have shared a bunch of different solutions in this thread. I definitely agree that not every suggestion will work for every family, so feel free to browse the suggestions to find the option that makes the most sense for your family’s needs.

The article isn’t really about being distracted though, it’s about the ways in which our brains tend to shift to autopilot without us realizing. The distraction are part of what makes the shift less noticeable/more likely, but eliminating distractions won’t fully eradicate the problem (also, I’d argue it’s impossible…

...have you read the WaPo article that’s linked in the article? Read it and come back if you have questions.

If you are worried about that a lot of people have replied to my initial post on this article (link here) with a lot of great suggestions to help prevent this type of tragedy from occurring. Different families have different needs, so look for the suggestion that might work best for you!

I am referring people back to the article because I don’t believe that you should just accept the words of a random internet stranger (i.e. me) about brain science. But I do stand behind the words of the experts in this carefully researched and well-sourced piece, and I am comfortable suggesting that you should…

You can be “pretty sure” of many things that aren’t actually true. Read the WaPo article Tracy linked in this article and come back if you still have questions.

Read the WaPo article Tracy linked in this article and come back if you have more questions.

It’s actually not my analogy, it’s from what the experts in the WaPo piece have said after studying this issue. If you think what I’m saying is just my own weird opinion perhaps you should re-read what the experts interviewed in the piece have to say.