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emmelaichtoday at 4:21 AM1 replyview on HN

If you've seen fellow workers being attacked by bears or smashed by falling trees you'd be pretty jumpy too. Abrupt noise after hours of near silence, followed by trauma.


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xattttoday at 10:22 AM

This, and also possible inter-generational family violence from a time when children were meant to neither be seen or heard.

> In the family of one of those with whom I experimented there were five Jumpers, the father, two sons, and two grandchildren of the respective ages of four and seven years…