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ahh iv breeding again. not trying to provoke anyone but an interesting thought came up for why some people like iv breeding.
In psychology, there's this thing called positive reinforcement which is pretty much incentives that you get which reinforces you to perform an action. IV breeding's positive reinforcement is pokemon with good IVs (valuable).
They found that if you, lets say, have a dog that you're trying to teach to do its business outside, you would give it a treat each time it does. But once it learns to, you want it to maintain that behaviour so now you cut back on treats. Give it a treat every once in a while at random when it poops where its suppose to. If you continue to treat it for every right poop the frequency of the behaviour actually goes down. But random positive reinforcement makes the dog continually shit outside anticipating that maybe this time it'll get rewarded. That's what the RNG is doing, reinforcing some people to continually IV breed for those well placed stats. Also gambling is mighty addicting because of this.