5. What Do Tom Sawyer and the Founder of Duolingo Have in Common?

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  I'm thankful that most academics are such terrible writers.

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  Great.

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  It gives you a job.

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  I'm Angela Duckworth.

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  I'm Stephen Dubner and you're listening to no Stupid Questions.

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  Today on the show.

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  How do you get people to work for free without their even knowing?

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  It played better than Tom Sawyer.

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  Really?

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  He just painted a frickin fence.

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  Yeah.

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  Also, there are millions of academic articles published each year.

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  But how much is this research actually benefiting us?

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  Not even other scientists are reading these articles.

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  And not even scientists.

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  Mothers?

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  Very likely not.

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  Angela.

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  Steven, nice to see you.

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  It is great to see you.

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