> You seem so confident in your assessment of the value of a bedtime story. I think it's called the dunning-Kruger effect. I wouldn't infer "so confident" from

> You seem so confident in your assessment of the value of a bedtime story. I think it's called the dunning-Kruger effect. I wouldn't infer "so confident" from ... hmm, what phrase did I use? ... "slightly-educated". Now, I'm sorry if that diction earlier was unclear. So let me clarify. No layperson should ever assign nontrivial confidence to their prior-expectation assessment of a question whose true answer unequivocally requires decades of research to find ... and I am no different from any other layperson in this regard. > Have you ever read a bedtime story to a child? Hell no. I do not yet possess even close to enough resources to support a family, let alone raise a child. Certainly you do not take me for an irresponsible fool. But doing that wouldn't help answer the question of what is one bedtime story worth. Indeed, any single person's entire lifetime isn't long enough for that one person to get enough data points for something even resembling a confident answer.