it looks pretty clear that smell is pretty low in all these graphs and the vision and taste are pretty high. You could use non-parametric stats to actually test whether any hypothesis would be valid. Maybe Aristotle is wrong in specifics but not in general. Also no Greeks..
There is no universal hierarchy of the senses reflected in language. Our study with 20 languages and 5 senses found biology does not predict the importance of the senses. Culture does. @PNASNews http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/30/1720419115 …pic.twitter.com/udA1dGnD8t
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We wondered the same thing and tested that in the paper. You can find the results on pages 11371-11372. The paper is open access. Would be great to see how Greek fares!
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Very interesting. But not one romance language? Do you assume that all Occidental languages have the same hierarchy as English?
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It would have been wonderful to include more languages, but in this study we aimed for a diverse a sample as possible. It would be great if people were interested in examining Romance languages too!
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This looks amazing. Also a contender for my favourite caveat in a paper: "It was also not possible to elicit taste descriptions in Mian and Semai as participants did not consent to imbibe the tastants (primarily due to fear of witchcraft)."
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Nice! Read this when it initially came out and was actually trying to remember where it was for class last week
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Great study, well done all
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Funny how the indoeuropean family is the most represented in the paper (tied with other families) but all complaints are: No romance languages? No greek? No spanish? No, it is about diversity! As always, in the west we’re ridiculously ethnocentric.pic.twitter.com/UugIK9edu7
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We’ll present your study together with the 2013 one very briefly to our linguistic classmates at Stockholm’s University. Exciting :) I think the 2013 study was also really fascinating.
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Amazing work, congrats to all the authors!
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This is incredibly fascinating work. Well done!
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This is fantastic - thank you so much
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Interesting work, congrats! Just from looking at the graph, however, olfaction appears to be an exception with very low codability (range 0-0.3), what do you make of that result?
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Ah, you addressed that in the discussion (2nd paragraph)! :)
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La segunda lengua nativa en el mundo no cuenta? Gran estudio...
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@mahagod Saca só! Um estudo tão bonito, mas sem amostragem no Br. - 1 more reply
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@GretchenAMcC I send you all the ling things@byudkowsky this is relevant to phenomenology and naming smellsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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