> The entire article is premised around this assumption
Not sure "assumption" is the right word here, since this isn't a hot-take by the author :) I just googled "developmental disgust" and skimmed the first few research papers, and 5+ a few years seems to be the consensus of whatever the scientific evaluation processes are.
Our own kids might not be a representative sample, since they're always biased toward our own genetics, and you may be developmentally atypical. Or there may be some caveats in the methodology that are controlled for in studies, but which we might misinterpret when measuring disgust in the wild (maybe "disgust" measurement protocols controls for a "new sensation aversion" or "parental mirroring" that babies have -- literally just made that up, and no idea if those are real things, but an experiment would likely surface and control for any subtleties that the field is aware of :) )
Anyhow, you got my brain thinking back to how it used to work through building scientific protocols, so thanks for the opportunity to exercise that part of my brain again (this was def not my field of study, so I have no special cred here!)
Not sure "assumption" is the right word here, since this isn't a hot-take by the author :) I just googled "developmental disgust" and skimmed the first few research papers, and 5+ a few years seems to be the consensus of whatever the scientific evaluation processes are.
Our own kids might not be a representative sample, since they're always biased toward our own genetics, and you may be developmentally atypical. Or there may be some caveats in the methodology that are controlled for in studies, but which we might misinterpret when measuring disgust in the wild (maybe "disgust" measurement protocols controls for a "new sensation aversion" or "parental mirroring" that babies have -- literally just made that up, and no idea if those are real things, but an experiment would likely surface and control for any subtleties that the field is aware of :) )
Anyhow, you got my brain thinking back to how it used to work through building scientific protocols, so thanks for the opportunity to exercise that part of my brain again (this was def not my field of study, so I have no special cred here!)