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by calewis 2425 days ago
My mother wrote her master thesis on the correlation between risk in early years children and success later in life (a long time ago now) It turns out if you allow children to take (reasonable) risks, then they go on to be more successful in their careers. This is now a relatively well known correlation. I loved doing ‘dangerous’ stuff as a child and this utopian playground makes me sad that most of today’s kids are shielded from it.
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> It turns out if you allow children to take (reasonable) risks, then they go on to be more successful in their careers.

How did she control the study well enough to assert that there's a causal relation? Or was it just a correlation?