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Better title: in a post-hoc test on non-generalizable data, multiple environmental factors were found to correlate with the presence of a word for "blue" in a l
by tgv 5y ago
Better title: in a post-hoc test on non-generalizable data, multiple environmental factors were found to correlate with the presence of a word for "blue" in a language, one of which was proximity to the equator. More speculation at 11.
- tralarpa 5y ago"We do so on a large dataset of 142 populations". LOL. 56% of them in Eurasia. Unexplained correlation with population size. No explanation what "dedicated word for blue" means. No discussion of language evolution (was the word recently acquired, e.g., through borrowing; this is briefly mentioned in the text). High quality paper.