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Could 鈥楳oneyball鈥� data help you raise your children?

3 July 2019

“In order to make good decisions about parenting, you first need to get the evidence and really understand what the best data says. Then you need to take that data and think about what is going to work for your family.”

Emily Oster, an economist, has written a book of parenting advice based purely on data collected around subjects ranging from breastfeeding, to infant sleep and vaccinations.

Speaking on Mornings with Kaye Adams, she acknowledged that parents aren’t always going to follow the advice to which the data points:-

“Not everyone is going to make the same choice, even with the same data. Hopefully it helps you think about how to make decisions.”

Mornings with Kaye Adams

Hear Kaye Adams鈥檚 full interview with Amercian economist and bestselling author Emily Oster (from 2hr 6min).

‘Moneyball’ author Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is the author of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, a book about the evidence-based analytics used in the pursuit of taking baseball team the Oakland A’s from poor results to a championship win.

Lewis said that Billy Beane, Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics, wants to run a British football team because ‘he believes that’s where the biggest inefficiencies are’.

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