This is the kind of news story that can be so incredibly misused once it gets into public discourse. I would expect that while the study comments on an interes

This is the kind of news story that can be so incredibly misused once it gets into public discourse. I would expect that while the study comments on an interesting data point for academics in the field, in reality the variance that you'll experience interacting with any one multi-lingual person or any one mono-lingual person will simply mean that it's trivia in day-to-day life. Even in designing curricula for a large group where anything of significance in this study would be worthwhile considering, you'd still want to know how this compares to other fields of pursuit on some sort of outcome basis before yelling, "language programs for the win!" The thesis of the title and the short article (no I didn't watch/listen to the media) doesn't answer the relative merit question. So maybe this research points to further study or is nice knowledge for knowledge's sake... but unless there's something more revealing in the linked YouTube video... I wouldn't read into it any more than that.