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A test with 40 people is not a real study.

MarkusWandel 4y ago
A test with 1 person isn't a real study either. And whether the brain is shrunken or not, the sleep disruption, the great increase of things to take care of, the constant distraction... definitely makes you less smart. But too late, you're permanently rewired into "parent mode" and would have it no other way.
- dylan604 4y ago
  >you're permanently rewired into "parent mode" and would have it no other way. that's a big assumption. we'd like to think that all people that have become parents wanted to be parents, but not everyone that's a parent wanted it. obviously, certain actions could have been taken to help prevent that. however, even if both parents were in agreement neither wanted to be parents, their options are less and less with each month's passing.
- thrown_22 4y ago
  One thing I've never heard anyone talk about is how much you can learn about yourself from your children if you pay attention, e.g. my child would start crying if things got too loud and I could never concentrate apart from working in the middle of the night. Putting two and two together I got myself a pair of -30db fitted ear plugs and now I can work during the day just as effectively. Turned out I'd been doing me wrong for 20 years.
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  Being a parent also makes you smarter, depending on how you defining smart.
dylan604 4y ago
Why? Did they use fake people? Ask the people managing the flow of info from those 40 people and ask if it was real or not. If anything, this is how I'd imagine real science being done. Doing something like this to get results at a scale that isn't quite funded, but enough to get attention. Later, someone else recreates the study at a larger scale to see if it is reproducible and hold as it scales.
renewiltord 4y ago
How many people does one need for a real study?
- deleted 4y ago
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- bergenty 4y ago
  At least a thousand.
  - renewiltord 4y ago
    What is your reasoning for that?
    - bergenty 4y ago
      It’s the generally accepted analog for the general population
      - renewiltord 4y ago
        I was unable to find any such reference.

A test with 1 person isn't a real study either. And whether the brain is shrunken or not, the sleep disruption, the great increase of things to take care of, the constant distraction... definitely makes you less smart. But too late, you're permanently rewired into "parent mode" and would have it no other way.

dylan604 4y ago
>you're permanently rewired into "parent mode" and would have it no other way. that's a big assumption. we'd like to think that all people that have become parents wanted to be parents, but not everyone that's a parent wanted it. obviously, certain actions could have been taken to help prevent that. however, even if both parents were in agreement neither wanted to be parents, their options are less and less with each month's passing.
thrown_22 4y ago
One thing I've never heard anyone talk about is how much you can learn about yourself from your children if you pay attention, e.g. my child would start crying if things got too loud and I could never concentrate apart from working in the middle of the night. Putting two and two together I got myself a pair of -30db fitted ear plugs and now I can work during the day just as effectively. Turned out I'd been doing me wrong for 20 years.
quickthrower2 4y ago
Being a parent also makes you smarter, depending on how you defining smart.

dylan604 4y ago

Why? Did they use fake people? Ask the people managing the flow of info from those 40 people and ask if it was real or not. If anything, this is how I'd imagine real science being done. Doing something like this to get results at a scale that isn't quite funded, but enough to get attention. Later, someone else recreates the study at a larger scale to see if it is reproducible and hold as it scales.

renewiltord 4y ago

How many people does one need for a real study?

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bergenty 4y ago
At least a thousand.
- renewiltord 4y ago
  What is your reasoning for that?
  - bergenty 4y ago
    It’s the generally accepted analog for the general population
    - renewiltord 4y ago
      I was unable to find any such reference.