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Inadvertently, I had stumbled across what has been called the Harvard law of animal behavior, which is related to Murphy's law: You can have the most beautifully designed experiment with the most carefully controlled variables, and the animal will do what it damn well pleases.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Inadvertently, I had stumbled across what has been called the Harvard law of animal behavior, which is related to Murphy's law: You can have the most beautifully designed experiment with the most carefully controlled variables, and the animal will do what it damn well pleases.

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About Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (, AIR-ən-rike; née Alexander; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.