Re:When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a cultural...
by lkozma on Monday January 25, 2016 @10:54AM
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It could be that the minimum is 7, the maximum is 470, but almost all values cluster around 200. Then it would be fair to say that variation is minuscule.
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Re:When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a cultural...
by scott_s on Monday January 25, 2016 @11:08AM
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That's what I thought they meant, too, but it is not. From the research article (http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587.full):
"The means display somewhat more variation, as shown in Fig. 2. Danish has the slowest response time on average (+469 ms) and Japanese has the fastest (+7 ms). The mean response offset for the full dataset is +208 ms, and the language-specific means fall within ≈250 ms either side of this cross-language mean, approximately the length of time it takes to produce a single English syllable (37)."
The point, I think, is that these means are close compared to the tails: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587/F1.large.jpg
