Ann's Blog On The Results Of Child Care:

Ann's blog #5:

This article basically talked about the effects of child care on young children. There have been experiments done that show some correlation between children who attended child care and children in 5th or 6th grade with behavorial issues. There is also some correlation between children who went to child care regulary and children with slightly higher vocabulary in 5th or 6th grade.

Reading this article made me feel really smart and also really nerdy becuase while i was reading it i started to get my ap stats brain out and try to analyze what the test was saying. at first i felt like slapping myself, but then i decided to go with it... so, i think that there may be some possible undercoverage and some lurking variables. Basically i mean that i think taht part of the reason for the results may be because of the general type of parent who sends their children to child care. First of all, these parents could possibly have a higher percentage of them who have a higher education and so they are at work and thats why they need to send their child to child care. so if the parent has a higher education, they probably have a higher vocab so that would rub off on the child. and same type of situation with the behavioral issues; if a parent is too busy to love their child and give them attention, they may develop some attention craving habits.