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It could be that the minimum is 7, the maximum is 470, but almost all values cluster around 200. Then it would be fair to say that variation is minuscule.
by lkozma 11y ago
It could be that the minimum is 7, the maximum is 470, but almost all values cluster around 200. Then it would be fair to say that variation is minuscule.
- scott_s 11y agoThat's what I thought they meant, too, but it is not. From the research article (http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587.full http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587.full): "The means display somewhat more variation, as shown in Fig. 2. Danish has the slowest response time on average (+469 ms) and Japanese has the fastest (+7 ms). The mean response offset for the full dataset is +208 ms, and the language-specific means fall within ≈250 ms either side of this cross-language mean, approximately the length of time it takes to produce a single English syllable (37)." The point, I think, is that these means are close compared to the tails: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587/F1.large.jpg http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587/F1.large.jpg