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interesting, and to put in relation with those other articles Mother tongue may determine maths skills [0] Does the Language I Speak Influence the Way I Think

• titanix2 9y ago
  The [0] study itself said in its introduction "Whereas previous neuroimaging studies have revealed differential activation patterns during reading processes [...], the question remains whether these differences are derived from culture characteristics rather than ethnic or hereditary factors (1, 9)." but does not give any information about the races the two studied groups. The Chinese speaker group is most likely made exclusively of Han people while the English one may be racially more diverse but probably mostly non East-Asian people. So basically it compares groups that have an average IQ difference of at least 5 points and that may explain the math advantage of Chinese "speaker". To avoid that issue this kind of study should use groups of people of some A origin rise in A and B language environment (like Asian Born Chinese speaking exclusively English vs Chinese speaker from China).