You might find today’s article esoteric and maybe even ridiculous, but eight years after Keith Chen first described the influence of language on economic decisions, it is a well-established fact. Back in 2014, Chen published an article that was more than just surprising at first sight. He looked at people with different native tongues and how these languages refer to future events.
I am not sure that linguists would agree that Chen's theory is now a well established fact. Instead, it could just remain one case among many when it comes to linguistic associations, ie involving weak statistical techniques and spurious correlations.
I am not sure that linguists would agree that Chen's theory is now a well established fact. Instead, it could just remain one case among many when it comes to linguistic associations, ie involving weak statistical techniques and spurious correlations.
http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com/2017/03/spurious-correlations.html