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    The studies for the "50 ml breastmilk per day is enough to show benefits" claim?

    @jaenalyn Random assignment is great but you need to check dropout— with such a small intervention retention I would imagine that perhaps the only women who were predominantly or exclusively breastfeeding by 6 months may have been similar (I.e., mostly SAHM from upper middle class families). I...
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    The studies for the "50 ml breastmilk per day is enough to show benefits" claim?

    @gizmorazaar Check something called the Flynn effect of IQ, typically IQ scores increase over generations but the distribution of scores tends to remain the same. It’s a little unrealistic to think that breastfeeding is going to reduce rates of intellectual disability in our population. It also...
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    The studies for the "50 ml breastmilk per day is enough to show benefits" claim?

    @gizmorazaar 3-5 standardized pts in an IQ test (for most tests like the WAIS which was used in that study) MAY move you into a new bracket (from average to above average), but I wouldn’t say that this study shows causation since it didn’t look like this analysis controlled for wealth, parent...
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