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xkcd Scientific Principles

According to xkcd 1531, the BDLPSWDKS Effect states that if a speeding fire truck lifts off and hurtles towards you on a layer of superheated gas, you'll dive out of the way faster if the driver screams "red!" in a non-tonal language that has a word for "firefighter" than if they scream "green!" in a tonal language with no word for "firefighter" which you think you're fluent in but aren't. Identify the scientific principles which combine to give rise to this phenomenon.
The comic spells out in full the BDLPSWDKS Effect, and so is a spoiler.
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Principle
"a speeding fire truck"
People typically adjust their behavior in response to the perceived level of risk, causing a reduction of predicted benefit from regulations that intend to increase safety
Peltzman Effect
"lifts off and hurtles towards you"
An increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
Bernoulli's Principle
"on a layer of superheated gas"
A liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling rapidly.
Leidenfrost Effect
"you'll dive out of the way faster if the driver screams "red!"...than if they scream "green!"
When the name of a color is printed in a color which is not denoted by the name, naming the color of the word takes longer and is more prone to errors than when the color of the ink matches the name of the color.
Stroop Effect
"...in a non-tonal language...than...in a tonal language"
The change in frequency or wavelength of a wave in relation to observer who is moving relative to the wave source.
Doppler Effect
"with no word for 'firefighter'"
Language determines thought and linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
"which you think you're fluent in but aren't."
People of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.
Dunning-Kruger Effect
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