Q&A · 1:52:30-1:52:59

Does childcare experience help explain traffic analysis?

The follow-up qualifies the childcare analogy as a way of thinking about evidence.

Question

Does the childcare analogy suggest that parents and nannies could be good at signals analysis?

Short answer

To an extent, but the emphasis is on the approach to interpreting activity and silence, rather than a rule about who makes a good analyst.

Notes

A viewer takes the childcare analogy as a suggestion that parents and nannies could make good analysts. The response accepts it only to an extent. The emphasis is on how people approach evidence and changes in familiar behavior. Looking after younger relatives supplies a personal example of recognizing sudden silence as a reason to investigate.