some psychologists perform operant conditioning with punishment maybe we can come up with a punishment for straying off topic not getting to see who wins at Pigeon ping pong comes to mind we could snap a rubber band on our wrists every time we get sidetracked not bad you know in medieval times idle chatter was punished with a device called The scold's Bride it's a an iron cage that's locked around the head and pierces the tongue if only we had one oh I'll check Amazon okay so we agree whenever someone takes us off topic they get their arm hair yanked off and I really G let that happen or the girl who does my eyebrows will think I've been cheating on her all right now one benefit of quantum coupling well there a question who decides that someone's gone off topic I think it'll be pretty clear if not we'll take a vote oh also ow what we didn't vote we didn't have to that was clearly a tangent now come on back to work if we're leaning towards Quantum coupling you said Quantum coupling that made me think of the show Quantum Leap that's a tangent and it's your fault ridiculous Sheldon I vote that is not a tangent yeah thank you and now I owe you one that was your fault that is a lot of hair and I'm going to hear it from Jenny everyone stopped this was a stupid idea negative reinforcement isn't working I think you mean positive punishment negative reinforcement is the removal of a positive stimulus it's a common mistake negative reinforcement is really wrong well it's used incorrectly all the time even Bill Murray makes that mistake in the first scene of Ghostbusters no way not Bill Murray I'm studying the effect of negative reinforcement on ESP ability huh Bill Marie did get it wrong Jump Ahead to the state Puff Marshmallow Man [Music] no Leonard's right we can't just jump ahead we have to watch the whole movie