carbor1

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   by carbor1 9y ago

   It's common for linguistics consultants to request that recordings be held private for a certain span of time after their deaths--- that may be one factor. Another thing that is a factor for certain communities is that some stories or
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   by carbor1 9y ago

   I do fieldwork on a lamguage that lacks a written form, so I actually know quite a lot of illiterate people, and they are quite capable of complex and rational thought. In a literate society like ours, we tend to equate language with writin
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   by carbor1 9y ago

   Wow, this article's claim that text is what enables us to think is incredibly elitist. Are illiterate people incapable of rational thought? Oral traditions are deep wellsprings of human knowledge and culture.
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   by carbor1 9y ago

   That being said, the authors are doing a lot of comparisons here! They ought to be reporting Dunn-Bonferroni corrected p-values.
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   by carbor1 9y ago

   No, not necessarily. It's standard practice to pick a p-value significance cut-off (0.05), but report the smallest such standard cut-off that any particular value meets. So "p < 0.001" is reported for values that meet that