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One can definitely figure out which kids were coming from troubled homes. Teachers often notice outlier behaviours and report them to higher ups to get help for
by j7ake 4y ago
One can definitely figure out which kids were coming from troubled homes. Teachers often notice outlier behaviours and report them to higher ups to get help for these children.
The effect of having loving parents completely dominates whether you breastfeed or bottle or formula.
- swores 4y agoAnd seeing if a child has recently been punched in the face is even easier, why draw the line at what's simple to see and dismiss anything that isn't?
- j7ake 4y agoTwo reasons : 1) Because large effects are more robust than tiny effects to things like researcher bias, choice of statistical methods, and experimental error. 2) because perturbing large effects are more likely to see real world difference for every day life than small effects. The conclusion from studies of breastfeeding versus bottle is it does not matter because it is a tiny and likely negligible effect (even if the effect is highly statistically significant).