(As I said, correlated), although note that at this point randomized studies have been done with some women being encouraged to breast feed and others not given any encouragement. There’s still a correlation. See this summary. This strongly suggests that what is going on here is not purely socioeconomic. But it is easy to connect this to a trust hypothesis: a child which is being directly exposed to their mother’s body might form strong social connections, hence be more trusting.
But it is easy to connect this to a trust hypothesis: a child which is being directly exposed to their mother’s body might form strong social connections, hence be more trusting.
Ah, thanks. That seems like an ambitious empirical claim to me, but at least I see the connection.
I don’t think the purpose of the breast feeding example was to say that it had a high probability of being the right explanation; just that there is a lot of uncovered ground in hypothesis space.
(As I said, correlated), although note that at this point randomized studies have been done with some women being encouraged to breast feed and others not given any encouragement. There’s still a correlation. See this summary. This strongly suggests that what is going on here is not purely socioeconomic. But it is easy to connect this to a trust hypothesis: a child which is being directly exposed to their mother’s body might form strong social connections, hence be more trusting.
Ah, thanks. That seems like an ambitious empirical claim to me, but at least I see the connection.
I don’t think the purpose of the breast feeding example was to say that it had a high probability of being the right explanation; just that there is a lot of uncovered ground in hypothesis space.