4 ms·

It's understandably hard to get actual numbers on the proportion of bilingual people. It's not "easy" to get the data but it's a well-studied topic. As attend

It's understandably hard to get actual numbers on the proportion of bilingual people. It's not "easy" to get the data but it's a well-studied topic. As attended to by people who presumably have thought about the matter and know what they're doing. So I'll take their number (at around 60 percent for multilingualism) at face value. Seems to correlate with observations from traveling (through which one rapidly makes the amazing discovery that no, not "everyone" speaks English or is otherwise bilingual).

makeitdouble 4y ago
> well-studied topic I kinda became sceptic of "trust us, it's ok" assumptions in many fields. I trust experts, but I also trust them to give insights on how they deal with the complexity, even if we don't look at the actual numbers etc. For instance on this specific study all the research is based on Cambridge Brain Science/Creyos, and that gives me pause on how much the results are reliable (they are still valuable, way better than nothing, but might have huge flaws as well) In that respect I'd like to know how they deal with "the gov might deport us in reeducation camp if we're too loud about our original culture" kind of situation, and wouldn't be surprised if the answer was "we pull numbers out of a magic hat", as it has been in many very prominent studies.