It seems underrated for LessWrong to have cached high quality answers to questions like this. Also stuff on exercise, nutrition, parenting and schooling. That we don’t really have a clear set seems to point towards this being difficult or us being less competent than we’d like.
I expect that these are among the harder YMMV questions, where the right answer really does differ a lot from person to person and over time.
In that sense, a think an actually-high-quality cached answer would look like a giant flowchart where you need months of self-experimenting and data collection at each decision point to make an informed choice, and even then the best-available studies will usually give low confidence in the result. And for parenting and schooling, aging is one way, so it’s not always possible even in principle to do the needed testing for a given individual.
It seems underrated for LessWrong to have cached high quality answers to questions like this. Also stuff on exercise, nutrition, parenting and schooling. That we don’t really have a clear set seems to point towards this being difficult or us being less competent than we’d like.
I expect that these are among the harder YMMV questions, where the right answer really does differ a lot from person to person and over time.
In that sense, a think an actually-high-quality cached answer would look like a giant flowchart where you need months of self-experimenting and data collection at each decision point to make an informed choice, and even then the best-available studies will usually give low confidence in the result. And for parenting and schooling, aging is one way, so it’s not always possible even in principle to do the needed testing for a given individual.