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They know what they're doing: publishing and attracting attention. It's pop-sci-bait. You take some grandiose idea X, dumb it down, operationalize it in a way t
by tgv 3y ago
They know what they're doing: publishing and attracting attention. It's pop-sci-bait. You take some grandiose idea X, dumb it down, operationalize it in a way that doesn't really prove what you want to say, do a correlation, and publish "X is true" or "X is false".
- mcswell 3y agoI haven't paid a lot of attention to the debate, so I can't give you a citation. But there have been many claims over the years (some of them by real linguists) that language property X is correlated with physical/ social/ ethnic property Y. This "grandiose idea" that you're referring to was one of those, and not one made up by the authors of this paper.