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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
How to Predict the Future
In psychology, people test their implicit associations by figuring out how long it takes them to do something. For English speakers, for example, it doesn't matter if I put the earlier key buffer below or above - they don't have a strong association that goes either way. Mandarin speakers, on the other hand, are faster if it's above than if it's below. And so that tells us that there is this implicit association that they have an expectation that those things are associated,. That they have to override when I do it the wrong way for them. If there's one thing that human beings aren't great at, it's predicting the future. Be prepared for anything by getting the best price
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