{"id":2876,"date":"2012-04-25T03:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2012-04-25T03:14:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:14:27","slug":"re-thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2012\/04\/re-thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"Re. Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational (Ars Technica)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2012\/04\/thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational.ars\">http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2012\/04\/thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational.ars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This surely sounds like one of those dubious psychology experiments. U know the type, the type with a single or perhaps two small experiments that were slightly below p&lt;0.05 and therefore publishable. So, i decided to take a look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Foreign-Language-Effect-Thinking-in-a-Foreign-Tongue-Reduces-Decision-Biases.pdf\">The Foreign-Language Effect Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In general, there is not much to note about the study, except that <em>technically speaking<\/em> in a small detail, their study actually shows the opposite of what they think. The reason for this is that they gave the percentages as 33.3% and 66.6% instead of the correct 66.7%. Technically, this wud make the secure option always the best one by a small margin.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, i&#8217;d like to see some other people reproduce this effect in a larger sample size. I&#8217;m not keen on these 40-200 sample sizes in psychology.<\/p>\n<p>The implications are interesting. So, suppose we now know that one makes more rational decisions (at least with regards to one cognitive bias) when thinking in a foreign language, what do we use this knowledge to? It is perhaps the most intresting reason to learn a foreign language i&#8217;ve heard of so far. Promoting rational thinking thru.. learning a new language. Strange, but it seems legit. Anyway, one cud force people to consider financial decisions in a foreign language, such as when taking a loan. I&#8217;d like to see some more research about this effect with regards to other biases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2012\/04\/thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational.ars This surely sounds like one of those dubious psychology experiments. U know the type, the type with a single or perhaps two small experiments that were slightly below p&lt;0.05 and therefore publishable. So, i decided to take a look. The Foreign-Language Effect Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases In general, there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1652,1653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-thinking-meta-thinking","category-psychology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}