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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Do You Feel in Control or Not in Control?

We're looking at data sets that had a thousand words with scores associated with them. So it's not a big set of words, right? People's vocabularies are tens of thousands. We've got this work from, we didn't do this the study, but a couple of years ago. It's worked by mahammed in canada. Again, on the line, many, many people are doing these evaluations and now we've got 20 thousand. And if you sort of rotate this football and kind of squeeze some of the axes and pull some of them apart, you geta another shape. This is like a compass for basic meaning so danger is down and safety is up

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