Boiling a frog in warm water is a "boiled frog experiment" conducted by scientists at Cornell University in the United States at the end of the 19th century. The story of boiling a frog in warm water: Put the frog directly into hot water, and the frog will jump out; if you put the frog into cold water and heat it slowly, the frog will not jump out until it is boiled to death.

Many people probably know the story of boiling a frog in warm water. The principle of this fable has been widely extended, especially to describe people's awareness of crisis. If you say you enter a crisis directly, then people will be alert immediately, but if you gradually fall into a crisis, people will not pay so much attention to it, so people are required not to relax at all.

In the field of management, this story can also have another meaning, which is that some changes should be done slowly and people will gradually adapt to them, so that there will be no problems.

This story is so widely circulated that you don’t need to tell the complete story. Just saying boiling a frog in warm water is enough for others to understand what it means.

Extended information:

Hodgson studies how different species of amphibians respond to temperature. Frogs are amphibians. Amphibians are cold-blooded animals and are also cold-blooded animals. Their body temperature will adjust with the temperature of the environment.

What Hodgson studies is the maximum temperature that amphibians can tolerate. The heating rate he selected was 2 degrees Fahrenheit per minute, which is about 1.1 degrees Celsius. Hodgson found that when a certain temperature is reached, frogs will become restless and try to escape from the environment. If the container allows, the frog will still jump out. Based on this, Hodgson declared that the boiling frog story was wrong.

The purpose of these "boiling" frog experiments is to examine the relationship between temperature and nerve reflexes. At faster heating rates, the frog can jump out, and the reason is easy to understand: the thermal stimulation triggers the frog's stress response-jumping away. In the process of slower warming, due to reasons similar to "sensory adaptation", the continuous subtle temperature changes allow the frog to adapt to this stimulus, and the reflex stress decreases until it reaches a tolerable critical high temperature and cannot escape.

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