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Only the absolute weakest forms of Sapir-Whorf anymore. It's pretty much a dead idea. The answer to this, if it isn't yet another social psych study that can't
by jnordwick 10y ago
Only the absolute weakest forms of Sapir-Whorf anymore. It's pretty much a dead idea.
The answer to this, if it isn't yet another social psych study that can't be reproduced, probably more lies in the time the people took to think about the problem or something else that they didn't measure.
The absolute crazy part is that they want to say a foreign language changes your morality. That should be a huge warning sign that something is off, and something isn't being accounted for. The foreign language sounds incidental to the study and there seems to be a deeper meaning.
I really wished they would have timed the people, and they had a control group that was forced read the problem or thing about before answering. Would reading have caused a shift in morality? How about reading in a difficult to read font? I'm sure the would have probably seen these also show interesting results.