WWTBAM Bored

And it's not a particularly nice shout-out.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfi ... onfidence/

It begins:

Do you remember on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—apparently this show is still on, but I’ll assume no one else has seen it this decade—how after contestants picked an answer, Regis Philbin sometimes asked, “How sure are you?”

Then it goes on to discuss some cognitive neuroscience, about how even little kids are pretty good about rating their confidence in knowing an answer. And then the blog ends:

This tool may be available to kids as young as 5. That means teachers at every grade level might benefit from teaching kids to “think about their own thinking,” as Cantlon puts it. Someday, maybe those kids can even win a lot of money on a gameshow—Who Wants to Be a Millionaire will probably still be on.

One of the too-many TV shows I watch (damn; can't remember which one; its network TV, though, if anyone's checking) had a character who reminisced about how they would play Millionaire with their father. They made it sound like this was a show from the distant past; their distant past, anyway. I think the show was Rookie Blue (& it was the episode on which the father turned out to be played by one of my favorite actors ever, from another TV show, & I only identified him by his voice, he was looking & acting so unidentifiable!. I'll leave the actor ID blank so as not to spoil it for anybody.).

MarleysGh0st wrote:And it's not a particularly nice shout-out.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfi ... onfidence/

It begins:

Do you remember on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—apparently this show is still on, but I’ll assume no one else has seen it this decade—how after contestants picked an answer, Regis Philbin sometimes asked, “How sure are you?”

Then it goes on to discuss some cognitive neuroscience, about how even little kids are pretty good about rating their confidence in knowing an answer. And then the blog ends:

This tool may be available to kids as young as 5. That means teachers at every grade level might benefit from teaching kids to “think about their own thinking,” as Cantlon puts it. Someday, maybe those kids can even win a lot of money on a gameshow—Who Wants to Be a Millionaire will probably still be on.

I'm about 75% sure she tried out for the show and didn't pass the test.