Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wrong

Re: Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wro

Parenting stopped mattering the minute the internet was on every kid's cellphone.

Now if you excuse me I'm going to actually click the link

Re: Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wro

tl;dr Make sure your regressors are not perfectly multicollinear and your errors have strict exogeneity.


In other news, an alarming number of social scientists I've met have been bad at statistics.
Who wants to bet there's both correlation and causation between that and the effect described in the article?

Re: Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wro

The article about bullshit is cool. I love that some researchers found a reason to write "bullshit" 56 times in an academic paper and still have it actually be worth reading.

The tricky thing about bullshit, of course, is that understanding if a statement was constructed with concern for the truth requires some notion of what the truth actually is.
"Make sure your regressors are not perfectly multicollinear and your errors have strict exogeneity" is a perfect example... it's really hard to tell if that's bullshit or not unless you know some statistics. Or at least enough math to make sense of the relevant Wikipedia article.

This is a long-winded way of saying, bullshit exists because nobody knows everything, so people can get away with it sometimes.

Re: Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wro

the lesson here is to never call a demographer a sociologist

Re: Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wro

a lot of people use degrees as heuristics

personally, I look up where they went and look at their curricula, then compare that to the average degree curricula for that field. you can more or less get an idea of what they know that way (assuming they're not big on self-study, of course)

Re: Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wro

Does parenting style not affect the stress response that is utilized later on in life as well? I skimmed the article this morning but I will re-read it, do disregard if this was addressed.

Re: Why parenting may not matter and why most social science research is probably wro

I mean, I hear what it's selling


But I ain't buying