Anna Tijinski

You can't deny it.

I'm definitely not saying we should do it, but it would have worked.

It's a bad idea, but it would have worked.

Who do you think is better at distinct, this is going to be a biased sample, but distinguishing their own baby's cries from other babies out of mothers and fathers?

Yeah.

Well, there you go.

And you're not a mother, are you?

Well, there you go.

So that's two theories exploded in James's last point.

So it's not mothers particularly.

It's just that mothers have always historically in studies been better at distinguish their babies crying and much better because they've always spent more time with their babies.

But if you do controlled studies, then it's just about how much time you spend with a kid.

And so that's changing a lot.

And actually, it doesn't even have to be your child.

They ran a study where non-parents were trained to identify a specific baby's cry, you know, hear it a few times, and then had to pick it out of a bunch of other cries that weren't that baby.

And they were as good as the parents at doing it.

And to save possible parents a lot of time,

There is almost no reliable evidence on the best way to raise children at that age because the studies have not been done.

So there are good studies that say don't neglect or abuse your children.

They have a bad time.