Emily Oster’s Sample Birth Plan

Emily Oster’s Sample Birth Plan

Birth plans are short documents that describe what you want to happen during your birth and what treatments you’re willing to accept in which situations. OBs and nurses have a slight aversion to them because they may signal some inflexibility to do what they think is best in critical situations.  But Oster argues it’s far better to think about hard decisions and articulate your preferences beforehand than to come up with them on the fly. Here are the elements of Emily Oster’s birth plan:

What Not to Eat When Pregnant

What Not to Eat When Pregnant

Pregnant women are commonly recommended to avoid a long list of foods – raw eggs, raw fish, cheeses, deli meats, to name a few. The general fear is that food illnesses can bear a risk to the fetus. Are these real threats and foods you avoid when pregnant? Or are these overblown? Emily Oster argues that many food illnesses are actually no riskier than when you’re not pregnant. But two forms are, and are worth avoiding. Foods Commonly Avoided that are Actually Fine Typical food poisoning is caused by Salmonella, E.coli, and Campylobacter. These pathogens cause diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting,

6 Framing Effect Examples: Context Matters in Decision-Making

6 Framing Effect Examples: Context Matters in Decision-Making

What are framing effects in psychology? How do framing effects affect decision making? The framing effect is a cognitive bias in which people make decisions based on whether the options are “framed,” or presented, as losses or gains. An outcome presented as a gain is much more favorable as the same outcome framed as a loss. We’ll cover how framing effects impact your decision making and look at framing effect examples.

Narrative Fallacy: 7 Examples of Harmful Storytelling

Narrative Fallacy: 7 Examples of Harmful Storytelling

What is narrative fallacy? When and why do you make this fallacy, and how can you avoid it? The narrative fallacy is the tendency to create a story with cause-and-effect explanations out of random details and events. We fall victim to the narrative fallacy because our brains want to make sense of a random world. Learn why your brain is so prone to falling for the narrative fallacy and how to counter it.

System 1 Thinking: How It Works (And When You Shouldn’t Trust It)

System 1 Thinking: How It Works (And When You Shouldn’t Trust It)

What is “System 1 Thinking,” from Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow? When should I use it, and when shouldn’t I? System 1 thinking is thinking that operates automatically and quickly. It takes little or no effort, and no sense of voluntary control. We’ll cover how Kahneman’s System 1 thinking is involved in making judgments and what biases System 1 thinking leaves you susceptible to.