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I think the commenters here are focusing on acquired languages, but does the study? I don’t think so, since the bilingual cohort was 2x as likely to be low soci

I think the commenters here are focusing on acquired languages, but does the study? I don’t think so, since the bilingual cohort was 2x as likely to be low socioeconomic status.

lisper 4y ago
Good point. I guess I assumed that the second language was acquired later in life because otherwise it's not really "acquiring a second language", it's "acquiring multiple languages at the same time." In looking back over this, I stumbled over this study which seems to directly contradict the one in the original link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797612443836 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797612443836 "This study explores whether the cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism in executive functioning extends to young immigrant children challenged by poverty..." which implies that there is a "cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism". So maybe the original study is just bogus. Or maybe this one is. Who knows? Sociology doesn't have a stellar reputation for generating reproducible results.
- pazimzadeh 4y ago
  This is a fun one: Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423309/
somenameforme 4y ago
The study was based on 'test your brain health!' type online surveys/games hosted by Cambridge Brain Sciences. The user portal is https://brainlabs.me/ https://brainlabs.me/ . They just grabbed a sample of 40k people who played certain games and dumped it into some data processing software. It's absolutely par for the course for modern social science studies, but makes any conclusions of dubious value for countless reasons. Put another way, I think the discussion is probably at relevant as the study.

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I think the commenters here are focusing on acquired languages, but does the study? I don’t think so, since the bilingual cohort was 2x as likely to be low soci

by seizethecheese 4y ago

I think the commenters here are focusing on acquired languages, but does the study? I don’t think so, since the bilingual cohort was 2x as likely to be low socioeconomic status.

lisper 4y ago
Good point. I guess I assumed that the second language was acquired later in life because otherwise it's not really "acquiring a second language", it's "acquiring multiple languages at the same time." In looking back over this, I stumbled over this study which seems to directly contradict the one in the original link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797612443836 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797612443836 "This study explores whether the cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism in executive functioning extends to young immigrant children challenged by poverty..." which implies that there is a "cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism". So maybe the original study is just bogus. Or maybe this one is. Who knows? Sociology doesn't have a stellar reputation for generating reproducible results.
- pazimzadeh 4y ago
  This is a fun one: Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423309/
somenameforme 4y ago
The study was based on 'test your brain health!' type online surveys/games hosted by Cambridge Brain Sciences. The user portal is https://brainlabs.me/ https://brainlabs.me/ . They just grabbed a sample of 40k people who played certain games and dumped it into some data processing software. It's absolutely par for the course for modern social science studies, but makes any conclusions of dubious value for countless reasons. Put another way, I think the discussion is probably at relevant as the study.