As the kids head off tosummer camp , many of them will touch in the timeless tradition of trying to get their friends to pee themselves by slipping their hired man into some fond urine . Does this actually ferment , or have generations of campers waste their efforts ?
We ca n’t say for certain . There ’s plenty ofanecdotal evidencethat advise the prank make reliably , but , as the democratic locution go , the plural of anecdote is not information . Some friend of a friend who affirm this go on to him at camp tenner ago does n’t really count for much . To test thing out in a manipulate environment , theMythBustersonce tried the trick on each other and a crew member in a lab with sleep - monitoring equipment and moisture alarms in the beds . Their resultswere less than impressive : zero wet beds ( to be fair , though , a sample size of three is n’t great ) .
If the trick does influence , it would swear on the business leader of suggestion . We’vetalked beforeabout how having to piddle when you hear the sound of go water is a kind of conditioned response , spur by the unconscious connective we make between the sound and the human action . Wet hand are associate with micturition through hand washing , which you doafterrelieving yourself , and there do n’t seem to be many issues with people lose control of their bladder other times they get their hired man in some tender water .
There is such a thing called “ ingress diuresis , ” which is urination brought on by temperature and imperativeness changes from immersing the body in water — this is whyswimming have you have to pee — but research suggests that whole limb or the whole eubstance needs to go under water for this mechanism to exercise , and a exclusive hand is n’t enough .
A version of this taradiddle originally ran in 2013 ; it has been updated for 2023 .
