Boiling Frog Myth
Discussions centered on debunking the 'boiling frog' analogy, with commenters repeatedly linking to Wikipedia to note that frogs actually jump out of gradually heating water contrary to the popular myth.
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If the analogy is apt, then they are doomed to fail at this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog"...according to modern biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild."i.e. the sun tries to graduall
If you put a frog in cold water and gradually heat the water, the frog will jump out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog). The premise of that analogy is widely considered to be completely false.
I think it's a case of boiling a frog: if you increase the temperature slowly, they don't notice and jump out. Or so the proverb goes.
From the second paragraph in your link:> While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to modern biologists the premise is false: changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild. A frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out.
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WHY on earth would a frog get boiled if you slowly increased the temperature?
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