As a type5 I feel all of this deeply! I'm definitely guilty of over-researching how to optimize childhood without stopping to ask "but is it good?" And as someone who has started to dip their toes into the fertility world ... I have felt this as well. Doctors really have only data to offer you! You make many decisions based on increasing your "percent chance" of live birth ... and it feels like running in circles!
Thank you for writing this! I've shared it with many friends!!
Marvelous insights, Abby. I tend towards wanting the reassurance of data to back my decisions in almost every area of life. Time and experience have been teaching me that our good faith understanding (and the experts' understanding) of "fact" actually can drastically shift across a very short amount of time, meaning decisions based on those facts actually weren't truly fact-based decisions at all. Research is important, and there is also such a thing as putting too much faith in research and forgetting our human existence is not as data-based as we would like to imagine.
I'm very tempted to write a spin-off of your piece and title it "No amount of data will give you a good birth"...
As a type5 I feel all of this deeply! I'm definitely guilty of over-researching how to optimize childhood without stopping to ask "but is it good?" And as someone who has started to dip their toes into the fertility world ... I have felt this as well. Doctors really have only data to offer you! You make many decisions based on increasing your "percent chance" of live birth ... and it feels like running in circles!
Thank you for writing this! I've shared it with many friends!!
Marvelous insights, Abby. I tend towards wanting the reassurance of data to back my decisions in almost every area of life. Time and experience have been teaching me that our good faith understanding (and the experts' understanding) of "fact" actually can drastically shift across a very short amount of time, meaning decisions based on those facts actually weren't truly fact-based decisions at all. Research is important, and there is also such a thing as putting too much faith in research and forgetting our human existence is not as data-based as we would like to imagine.
I'm very tempted to write a spin-off of your piece and title it "No amount of data will give you a good birth"...
I loved this, Abby! Such good and needed perspective. Thank you for sharing!
Amen to everything here! I was also struck by Klein's comment in that episode. The studies won't save us, indeed.
This is so right. Especially since data can so often contradict itself!