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I would tend to agree. Somewhere else in the thread someone recounted a conversation with a 24 month old far more advanced than any two year old I've met could

I would tend to agree. Somewhere else in the thread someone recounted a conversation with a 24 month old far more advanced than any two year old I've met could manage. I think it would be pretty lucid even for my 3yo. That's not to say the conversation couldn't have happened, but the advice seems somewhat miscalibrated if that is taken to be typical. My question: for all this talk of rationalism, where is the research to show this approach yields better outcomes than any other?

AstralStorm 9y ago
Unfortunately psychological interventional research on humans who cannot consent is quite forbidden. (But we do that all the time actually.) What do you do with failed experiments? How do you estimate outcomes and whether techniques were applied correctly?
- newfoundglory 9y ago
  That's not actually true, parents can consent on behalf of minors. Why would this present any more trouble in dealing with failed experiments than other psychological experiments?