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Read the column. He's very obviously talking about multiple studies. The Nisbett study was about farm animals, not fish. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/op
by nostromo 11y ago
Read the column. He's very obviously talking about multiple studies. The Nisbett study was about farm animals, not fish.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12brooks.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12brooks.html
> When the psychologist Richard Nisbett showed Americans individual pictures of a chicken, a cow and hay and asked the subjects to pick out the two that go together, the Americans would usually pick out the chicken and the cow.
- ar-jan 11y agoI meant that Nisbett's name was mentioned in the column (regarding the farm animals, yes), and that this allowed the study with underwater scenes to be found, namely http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11708567 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11708567.
- conistonwater 11y agoThat one also appears in the llog posts if you follow the links: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478 As far as I can tell, their critique is correct in that the research Brooks cites isn't enough to support the claims that he wants to make.