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I think this doesn’t disprove the theory I’ve set out that people who know more languages than the average local population are likely to have other markers cor

• wongarsu 6y ago
  It's not about knowing more languages (I would be surprised to learn that they only knew two, after all it's Europe). This paper instead studies differences between people who actually use multiple languages, against people who don't. There's still corellation here, like professions where the lingua franca isn't the local language (programming, medicine, music (to some degree), sciences, etc). The paper claims the effect appears equally strong in all occupations though.
• lentil_soup 6y ago
  But that's not the case here, Barcelona is a bilingual city. The average population speaks both Catalan and Spanish.