Science
What if most parenting guilt comes from bad data?
A lot of parenting advice sounds like settled science. Breastfeed or else. Co-sleep, never co-sleep. Screen time will ruin your kid. But when you actually look at the studies behind these claims, many of them are surprisingly weak.
The data on breastfeeding is way less conclusive than anyone tells you.— Emily Oster
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The thinker
Economist Turned Parenting Researcher
Emily Oster is a Brown University economics professor who applies data analysis to parenting decisions, author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, and The Family Firm.
Based on Emily Oster: Pregnancy and Parenting, Data vs. Dogma | Lex Fridman Podcast, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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