Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about why you might be causing your own pure pressure and how to get over it.

A 1927 experiment to prove that pitch is a liquid and why it's still

going on, and how to get more done by trading your to-do list for time-boxing.

Let's time-box some curiosity. New research published in developmental psychology

suggests teenagers don't really know what the cool kids are doing.

All right, this might sound a little silly,

but this has big implications for peer pressure and how kids and adults

influence each other. Think back to high school. You probably had a pretty good sense of

who the cool kids were. Probably thought you knew who was getting high or hooking up, or who was studying all day long.

Or maybe you thought you knew what was going on, when in reality you were wrong all along.

As reported by the conversation, a pair of new studies looked at the perceptions of more

than 400 high school students at two different schools over the course of several years.

In the first part of the study, the researchers found that teens consistently overestimated the risky behaviors of their peers.

So basically, they thought the jocks and popular kids used more substances and had more sexual partners and broke the rules more often.

But that wasn't the case.

And those wrong ideas went the other way too, like students thinking the quote-unquote

nerds studied a lot more than they did. The big implications came from the second part of

the study and that followed high school students until the end of their junior

year. They misperceived their

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