(thank you, Emily)
THE FINE PRINT:
The story above is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of threats that arise gradually.
While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual,[1][2] according to contemporary biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out.[3][4] Thermoregulation by changing location is a fundamentally necessary survival strategy for frogs and other ectotherms .
Law professor and legal commentator Eugene Volokh commented in 2003 that regardless of the behavior of real frogs, the boiling frog story is useful as a metaphor, comparing it to the metaphor of an ostrich with its head in the sand.[10] Economics Nobel laureate and New York Times op-ed writer Paul Krugman used the story as a metaphor in a July 2009 column, while pointing out that real frogs behave differently.[21] Journalist James Fallows has been advocating since 2006 for people to stop retelling the story, describing it as a “stupid canard” and a “myth”.[22][23] But following Krugman’s column, he declared “peace on the boiled frog front” and said that using the story is fine as long as you point out it’s not literally true.[24]
— Wikipedia
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