It was a really small study. I wouldn’t necessarily read too much into it. But its results sum up the entire high-school experience, in my view: mistaking people’s fear for something else.
Reminds me of Mark Oppenheimer on running:
Like adolescents, distance runners have rivalries only with themselves.
I got through high school relatively unscathed, I think, but I think it was probably dumb luck.
Mark Larson 