From The Atlantic: Almost none of the choices you make are as fraught as you think they are. A recent study calculated that in the first year of a baby’s life, parents face 1,750 difficult decisions. However, there is evidence that one decision may be very important—and it’s a decision that parenting experts and advice books rarely even consider. More ...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist and the author of the forthcoming book Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life.