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You seem to be dunking on them for making a qualitative judgement, but they made a comparative one.
by anoncareer0212 6y ago
You seem to be dunking on them for making a qualitative judgement, but they made a comparative one.
- spenczar5 6y agoNo, I'm dunking on them for the comparative judgement, that a reason for fewer preterm births might be less-stressed mothers. I think it's very silly to claim that this is lower stress than your typical year just because you don't have to commute.
- Jolter 6y agoMaybe we should all refrain from speaking for all pregnant women without having any facts to support it.
- klyrs 6y agoI think spenczar5's reaction is fairly understandable in the context. Live in close quarters with somebody in their 7th month of pregnancy and 5th month of lockdown and we'll see if your goto reflex is to explain further. There's a need for a lot of sensitivity in this conversation. It's easy for us to armchair-expert this to death... that isn't necessarily a good thing.
- erulabs 6y agoI mean, "armchair quarterback" doesn't really apply to posing a hypothesis, does it?
- klyrs 6y agoI didn't say quarterback, did I? For all that HN loves to rip on studies with small sample sets or sketchy statistics, or worse, deriding people sharing their experiences as anecdotal, this community is sure fond of positing alternative hypotheses with zero evidence.
- mistermann 6y agoIt's maybe also possible that some people find it more stressful than their normal routine, and some find it less.