Ming argues scolding doesn't work as punishment. A jaywalking study found random rewards cut violations more than fines ever did. Reward-based approaches beat scolding for changing how kids behave.
Scolding is not something you should do. In fact, scolding is so ineffective. If you think about it, it's like a punishment. In terms of punishment, punishments, it's a negative consequence. There are two types. There's a positive punishment and a negative punishment. There are only two types of punishments. One is that I was supposed to give you something, but I'm withholding it now, not giving it to you because you did something wrong. Right. The second one is that you did something wrong. I'm going to give some sort of bad consequence to you. The famous study that I Talked about on YouTube before in Vancouver, they did like a ticketing thing for jaywalking, and they did both. One is handing out a fine. The second one is to reward and praise and give them a coupon for pizza or whatever. So they realized that when they started to give out coupons randomly to strangers who didn't jaywalk, the percentage of jaywalk went down when they realized that they've been doing for 10, 20 years. Doesn't work. But the other type of punishment is, oh, because you jaywalk, I'm not going to give it to you. That hurts.
