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@amanda212 Ironically, I had something like this in there in early drafts but cut it for space reasons… I'm still very reluctant to put any more material in.

@jmbttown RCT is not quite the same as 'good quality'. RCTs deal with one important problem, the 'correlation is not causation' one. However RCTs can still be flawed. E.g. parents are known to be bad at measuring children's behaviour. I would take a non-RCT that used teacher evaluations of...

@mikalmo So... I don't mean to be rude, but you've left 13 comments in this thread, and I don't think any of them contain links to supporting research...

@continualseeker Thank you for this. Focusing on the high-income one, I was rather bemused as it only considers one study. They throw away another 13 studies because there were 'unacceptable co-interventions'. The 14 don't include seminal work like the NICHD SECCYD. It took me a bit to realise...

A while back I posted some notes on the science of childcare in response to some requests on this sub. People occasionally post links to it here, and I recently saw a (now deleted) post in which people discussed it. A running theme there was that people were skeptical of the research on Quebec...

@amanda212 Thanks!

I've noticed that people on this sub are often talking past each other because of terminology. Try Googling "Cry it out". Here are quotes from the first 5 hits, with my emphasis added... 1. The goal of the CIO method is to let baby fuss and cry on her own until she eventually wears herself out...

I recently ran across this: Mathers et al, 2012. Improving Quality in the Early Years: A Comparison of Perspectives and Measures. More generally, only one component of the Ofsted score had a significant correlation with the ITERS-R score at the 5% level, and that correlation was 0.12. Even...