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Re:Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire by coldtea on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:10AM (#5268962)
No, merely Shapir/Wolf hypothesis.

It doesn't even need the correlation part, you can deduce similar conclusions merely from studying each language without real world input.

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Re:Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire by archangel_one on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:46AM (#5269039)
I think you mean Sapir-Whorf. My understanding was that's not been proven to a sufficient extent to use it as any kind of hard evidence that language influences complex decisions like long-term financial planning.
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Re:Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire by coldtea on Sunday February 24, 2013 @07:23AM (#5273963)
Well, they didn't use Sapir-Whorf to prove that "language influences complex decisions like long-term financial planning".

They did their own research, from scratch, to see if that happens, research that would also help to prove Sapir-Whorf.

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Re:Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire by mieubrisse on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:44AM (#5269035)
Minor correction I discovered whilst Googling the aforementioned hypothesis to learn more: it's actually the "Sapir/Whorf hypothesis".
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