Vaniver comments on Why Bayes? A Wise Ruling - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Vaniver 25 February 2013 03:52PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 27 February 2013 10:39:10PM 0 points [-]

For example, it's likely that a parent who chooses to co-sleep is more well-disposed toward the infant, and is therefore far less likely to kill it deliberately (infanticide), thus making up some unknown decrease in the overall frequency of "SIDS".

Indeed; this also probably explains some of the benefit of room-sharing.