Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Book Review: Kazdin's The Everyday Parenting Toolkit - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 31 March 2014 09:29PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 01 April 2014 06:15:26AM 1 point [-]

Interesting. Indeed "rational parenting" should be only "parenting". My first though was to argue that "rational parenting" is becoming a construction (via usage in prior posts) of a certain (class of) parenting style. But that wouldn't be right, so I fixed it.

Comment author: Benito 01 April 2014 08:43:47AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps 'Optimal Parenting' or 'Evidence-Based Parenting' or just a normal parenting guide without any rational buzzwords.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 April 2014 04:27:17PM 2 points [-]

"Evidenced-based" is IMO even worse than "rational."

Comment author: gwern 02 April 2014 05:42:03PM *  2 points [-]

If I see a title with 'evidence-based' in it, I have a good guess at what sort of methodology and epistemology I expect to see in it: systematic review with a focus on randomized trials & meta-analyses. This gives me a good start at interpreting it (positive results should be taken seriously, but nulls are not very informative because typically there is little acceptable data; cost-benefit reasoning will likely not be included).

While if a title includes 'rational' in it...

Comment author: Benito 03 April 2014 07:03:48PM 0 points [-]

Erm, yes I think so too, I don't know why I offered that. I'm retracting the whole comment, it seems unnecessary.