This Psychological Experiment Teaches Us a Valuable Lesson

There’s an answer to your helplessness

Imagine there’s a classroom where a teacher has handed out a paper to all the students. The paper is numbered 1–3 with each number having its own scrambled letters. The students must decipher these letters into a word. For example, the letters PCA could be deciphered into CAP.

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Astrophysics student, writer for over a decade. A passion for language and the unexplored universe. I aim to marry poetry and science. ella.aldrsn@gmail.com

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Ella Alderson

Astrophysics student, writer for over a decade. A passion for language and the unexplored universe. I aim to marry poetry and science. ella.aldrsn@gmail.com