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Am I Boring You? (Ep. 225 Rebroadcast)

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Do You Want Me to Repeat It?

After each task, the participants were asked questions to judge their level of boredom. The most boring task was borrowed from an old experiment that asked lab subjects to turn little wooden pegs. Participants would rotate eight circles on a screen and every time they would click, it would rotate a quarter turn. But audio is slighty less boring than vidio....

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