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> "bilinguals have been argued to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals" This is the one I find very problematic. They made up an e

• casefields 7y ago
  Yup. That’s setting up the parameters in an obvious way to strawman an opponents argument.
  • CrazyStat 7y ago
    It can't be a strawman when it's an argument that the opponents have actually made. Examples are easy to find: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-06955-009 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-06955-009 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28895004/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28895004/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22464592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22464592/
• cstrahan 7y ago
  > They made up an entire unscientific claim to disprove. Search for "bilingual smarter". Here are a handful of articles that suggest that many, many people have already put forth (or at least entertained the possibility of) these claims over the years: --- Does being bilingual make you smarter? | British Council Research Finds That Bilingual People Are Smarter, More Creative And Empathetic | Lifehack Are Bilingual People Smarter Than People Who Speak One Language? | JSTOR Daily Why Bilinguals Are Smarter | Association for Psychological Science How Being Bilingual Makes You Smarter | Grammarly Why Bilingual Kids Are Smarter | Bilingual Kidspot Are Bilinguals Really Smarter? | Psychology Today --- Could you provide any sources that suggest that the authors initiated this discourse?
• knzhou 7y ago
  Isn't that literally the claim the article posted here is making?