The idea that these absolute, binary prescriptions that you would get from people about what you should and should not do actually existed across this wide spectre of risks. That's what stuck with me. I must have told dozens of people, both like, read this book, and also, think about how hard it is to study alcohol and pregnancy. It requires all these surveys, et cetera. So i feel like, even though that shouldn't be the main thing you take away, i didn't take away all. But it was actually a tremendous relief.
Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm.
”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. ... I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I just got mad and that's not a productive way to interact. And it affects how I think about what I write, and I would like what I write to be the things that I think are true, not the things I think will avoid people being angry.”
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