How does the information in this chapter regarding the contradictory and confusing assemblage of information from parenting experts support the major theme of this book? Hint: incentives matter It doesn't matter what the experts are saying as long as there is a scared parent their books will sell.
The experts varied opinions will be respected by different types of parents. However, they all have something in common, they want the best for their child. Based on the example of perfect parenting in this chapter, provide examples that illustrate how the combination of asymmetric information and fear can lead to inefficient outcomes. In the gun and swimming pool example, in theory it is safer for children to play in a swimming pool than in a house with a gun.
The fear of your child being shot is more frightening so it would be logical that it is safer in a swimming pool. However, statistics show that more child deaths happen in swimming pools than by gun play.
The hype of the dangers of a gun in the home make asymmetric information a problem not telling how dangerous the swimming pool is.
For example, if a child that is brought up in a home around education, books, etc. Correlation is the mutual relation between two or more things. What tool does an economist use to make sense of data which include many variables? Chapter 1. Week 5 - Measurement Outcomes. Psychology Question. Business Question. Answer the following questions Computer Science Question. Mikesbikes simulation multiplayer rollover. Chapter 5. Chapter 6.
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That's probably one of the more useful things that program could do as opposed to new supplies, etc. Nicely done! That might be the reason why people over dramatize and over protect their kids. Regardless of the safety feature, it will be appealing if the fear is presented but the seller.
The pool seems to be presented a lot more to the public than guns so it seem to be more dangerous. The schools in the city who do not so well with graduating or test, do not really have a difference in white or black scores. Parents are more susceptible to fear mongering than other people because they have a protective instinct.
They will do almost anything for their children especially if their children are in danger. Parents read books about things that could happen to their children because they want to be ready for anything that could happen. Also, newer parents are probably more worried about not doing the right thing when bringing up their child, so they turn to the "experts. The incentive for a parent is to give their child a good life. Because parents want to give their child a good life, they have the incentive to use expert advice to help them raise their child.
The swimming pool and the gun example suggests that it is safer for a child to play in a swimming pool than in a house with a gun. But the stats show that it is highly unlikely that a child will be shot in their own house with a gun, it also shows that children are more likely to drown in a pool. Economists use controlled data to help them collect data. Then they change one of those variables to see what happens and how it affects the other variables.
Normative analysis often refers to someone's opinion, or something that cannot be proven. Positive analysis is usually the results of research, or something that can be proven. Parents often believe normative analysis when bringing up a child, because in theory, there is no right or wrong way to parent. That is a different and interesting point.
I didn't think about parents and their protective instincts. I agree on your explanatino of why some parents turn to experts. I didn't think of the parents and their incentives. Would you agree that the experts also have their own incentives?
Good point telling the statistics between pool and gun-related deaths. Good explanation between normative and positive analysis. In the '90s the US Department of Education tracked 20k students from kindergarten until fifth grade to keep track of their academic progress. This chapter says that schools with overwhelming white people is better than schools with overwhelming black people.
They are making the point that usually white children go to better schools. No matter their race, a person in a bad school usually does better.
I think the reason for this is because if your parents were smart then you will probably be smart. Its all about genetics. The amount of books in a household doesn't affect a child's grade in school. It just shows that the parents are smart or not. I would give more money to the Head Start program to help a child be smarter in the future. Birth problems are usually the mothers fault. For example, the mother drinks alcohol or smokes while the baby is still in her stomach.
Parents are very protective. They fear that the worst will happen to their children and they will do almost anything for their children. They want to be prepared to do the right thing in any situation. How does the information in this chapter regarding the contradictory and confusing assemblage of information from parenting experts support the major theme of this book Hint:incentives matter?
They want to be the best parent. They turn to experts because they will know what is best. In the book it compares having a gun in your house to having a swimming pool. There is a higher risk of a child dying in a pool then them shooting themselves. The gun in general is more unsafe but it is less likely. They will change one variable to see the difference in the data. Positive analysis can be scientifically proven, normative can only be supported. Who conducted it, who was the target of the study,and what was the purpose of the study?
They tracked 20, students from kindergarden to 5th grade to see how they would do academically. According to the data in this chapter,what are the main differences between a school which overwhelmingly has black students versus a school which overwhelmingly has white students?
White children normally go to a better school, so you can conclude that a school with more while children is safer. That is not always the case. Their race has no effect on them, only the school. In your opinion,what might be an explanation for such a strange conclusion? Its about your parents. Over the time span of your life your parents can do things. It also may do with genetics.
The books show the intelligence of the parents, not necessarily the students. According to the data developed from the ECLS,a low birth weight is correlated with lower test scores on standardized tests,but the attendance by a child in the Head Start program is not.
If you were a government official with limited financial resources,how would this inform your decisions regarding the allocation of government funds? The babies weight is typically the mothers fault. She may be doing drugs or drinking.
By giving more money to the HS program a child will be in school more and do better. Parents think that these "experts" know best about parenting, and they think tif they don't listen to them, their child won't be able to survive in society 2.
Fear of death, responsibility, and other unreliable sources. The incentive for the "experts" is that parents will take their advice. The incentive for the parents is that they will raise their kids in the way they think is the "best way possible" 4.
If an "expert" would give you advice on breastfeeding your baby instead of bottle-feeding it, you might only breast feed instead of bottle-feeding. A correlation is a positive or negative relationship between data. A causation is what can happen in the relationship. Economists use what matters and what doesn't matter.
If more variables show, it gets complicated. He determines which factors are correlated and which aren't. Normative regression is when something that seems normal is less than normal.
Positive regression is when something that seems positive is less than positive. With parenting 8. Department of education made a project called Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. ECLS wanted to measure the academic progress of more than 20, children in kindergarden-5th grade. Using children and parent interviews, this regression analysis identified interesting correlations. Since a black student's parents have low income jobs, they would score worse, even though he and the white student came from the same background.
An average black person would do better than a white person in a bad school. What a parent is is important because good parenting skills don't make a good child if the child doesn't like the parent to start with. The parent would purchase the books for the kid and read the books to him or her on a daily basis, thus achieving what they think is a high academic status.
If I were a government official, i would probably give the Head Start program the necessary funding by getting my resources to invest more money in education. Experts, lont-time parents, basically authors of those type are usually the ones who parents buy and recommend books from. If a child was around one or the other, the chances of them getting caught in a shooting incident would be much more slim than drowning in the pool.
A way that this is found is by the economist taking similar variables in an experiment and changing some of them to see what makes them different than the rest. Positive is when actual facts and experimental results are used to prove something. This chapter describes the differences by talking about parenting tools and how a lot of advice and tips are results of different opinions.
The purpose of the study was to see overall school performance amongst American students. The main reason that a school does more poorly than another is because of general funding going towards the running of the whole program. However, smaller things like quizzes or worksheets given in different schools can show different results in each child because the level of difficulty the method of teaching in each school can easily vary.
One cannot be a parent without children. It is not mandatory for a parent to be perfect for their child, but if one does try to attain perfection, their child would have a higher chance of success because their parent is making more things in life possible for them. It could just be public service announcements or performances where people go across the country to speak to the public about staying healthy and doing good in school. Parents are more susceptible to fear mongering then any other people because they want their kids to be safe so they make illogical decisions because fear is a becomes a factor to their decisions.
Parents would choose the book that talks about their inadequacies and fears because they want to be ready for anything. The incentives for the parent is that their kids will grow up being the best they possible can be. So they will by books, listen to lectures, etc. For example, if a expert was to say that physical discipline is the best way to deal with a situation with a child then new parents might start relying on spankings than any other method because an expert said so.
Correlation is the relationship between the data or how something happens. While causation why something happens. When a economist has a lot of variables in a data he has to make sense of it. The way the economist does is by seeing if the factors correlate or not. Positive analysis can be backed up with real numbers. While normative analysis is when the numbers are used to make a bias statement. It was a monumental study taken to see the the academic progress of 20, k-5th graders.
Schools that is dominantly black will have worse education then a school that is dominantly white. There isn't a difference in test score if a black and white student goes to a "bad" school. What a Parent is. If the parent is smart and has a high IQ, then genetically the child should be just as smart as the parent. Parents should have more books around the house because that would mean they actually care about education. Reading to your child everyday doesn't really mean anything when it comes to tests.
If i were a government official, i would give more money to the educate the children of america because ultimately they are our future and we need to help build a better one. YOu couldn't put it more simply, that is the truth. I guess that makes sence. The data seems to say that, guess your right. Thats true, Lil wayne makes a lot of money, but you can't prove wether he is bad or not. Personally i don't listen to him that much, so i can't say wether he is bad or not. Parents are responsible for bringing a human being into the world and therefore they feel that new human being is theirs to protect and keep out of harm.
The books that show the most common fears is very appealing to the parents because they think it is a simple fix of the common fears that will make you feel more secure. But you may never know, those experts could honestly have the same problems because no one is the perfect parent because there are no absolutes in parenting. The parents feared the gun more than the pool, where it should have been the other way around since more children drown in swimming pools than get shot.
Correlation means that two things have a connection with each other. Causation refers to one thing causing another. An economist may use regression analysis to make sense of data with many variables. Regression analysis focuses on the relationship between dependent variables and independent variables.
This is fairly simple when looking at only a few different relationships but the more variables the harder the regression analysis is. Normative analysis cannot be shown to be true, but positive analysis can.
I believe that a lot of the instances in this chapter are normative because being a perfect parent cannot be proven.
It is all based on opinion and how people live. Department of Education. The targets of the study were 20, students. The purpose of the study was to measure the academic progress of those 20, students from kindergarten to 5th grade. The amount of troublesome indicators is the largest difference. Schools with more black students have more gang problems, lower funding, and nonstudent loitering in front of the school, along with the low-income household. Academically, anyone in a bad school does poor compared to anyone in a well kept school.
So race in this situation does not really play a part because on a equal playing field it seems that white and black students do the same. I think this is because a lot of who a child is and what a child does is actually inherited from our parents. Its not that your parent spends lots of time reading to you that makes you a good reader, its that you parent likes reading and feeling it is important I think just purchasing books would be fine and get the kids to interest themselves in reading them.
The thought of a parent thinking that far into getting their child to read well will probably heighten the chance of the child being able to read at an accelerated pace. I would also reduce the money being spent on the Head Start program. I believe that in the long run, this would increase test scores based on the facts focused on in the book. Parents are scared they are going to do the wrong thing so they get the books that would solve what they are doing wrong instead of what articulates the science of a good parents.
The assemblage of information in the chapter fits in with the theme of the book because it show the incentives to be the perfect parent and the incentives of those who try to teach how to be a perfect parent. It then shows the connection between the two and how their incentives influence each other and what they do.
Correlation is the connection between two different subjects that have an influence over each other. Causation is the relationship of cause and effect. Economists use data and variables. The economist uses the data to find a correlation. Positive analysis is based off of facts and numbers while normative analysis is bias and opinionated. You can learn that parents are usually susceptible to normative analysis because they are so scared they will tend to listen to anyone.
The ecls was a study to see the progress of students in school. It was conducted by the U. The school with overwhelmingly amount of black students tend to do poor while the white students tend to do good. The student in a bad school usually does poorly no matter what.
A students smarts is usually passed on from the parents and if the parents are smart the kid is smart what the parent does can help but its ultimately just the parent nurturing their kids nature. The books usually just has to do with how smart the parents are.
Parents are more prone to protecting a child since they helped to make and raise it. Describe the difference between normative and positive analysis. What can you learn about the utility of this distinction from this chapter on perfect parenting? A theory that cannot be proven by any expert is considered a normative analysis, and if a theory can be proven it is automatically considered to be positive analysis. Parents will believe most things that claim to be the right parenting guidelines even if there is no other supporting information about it.
Who conducted it, who was the target of the study, and what was the purpose of the study? Department of Education that measured the progress of kindergarten through fifth grade students. According to the data in this chapter, what are the main differences between a school which overwhelmingly has black students versus a school which overwhelmingly has white students? Schools with overwhelming amounts of white students tend to do better on standardized tests than schools with large amounts of black students.
These schools have higher crime rates, gang problems, non-student loitering and lack of PTA funding.
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