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Pieareround · 3419 days ago · link · · parent · post: If you had unlimited resources, and ethics is thrown out the window, what social science experiment would you want to conduct?
You'd want to make the caretakers as impersonal as possible, maybe even to the point of being robotic. Consider how much of communication is nonverbal. We even have languages that are completely based on hand gestures. Even the slightest reinforcement of certain nonverbal actions by the caretakers might have a profound effect on how language develops. Then again, if you had a thousand islands full of babies, you'd have room to systematically alter variables like level of contact between babies and caretakers and see what differences those alterations made.