Their sounds (source @Gladwell) are shorter too, so given a general human short-term memory native eastern-language speakers can simply deal with longer numbers.
Extrapolate too that linguistics and mathematics requires the brain to oscillate instructions across the corpus callosum (left/right).
~7 oscillations for the sum above.
Our language makes English speakers CISC in a world where many people's language is more like RISC.
Our language means we English-speakers have bigger instructions sets *and* we have to make more oscillations (to decode & recode the complexities of our language at the start & end of the operation).
Double whammy.
Worth noting that the tech-world has been steadily moving to RISC our whole lives for a reason! 🤓
I would be interested to know if there is a disparity in the incidence of #Dyslexia (heavily associated, afaik, with the capacity of one's corpus callosum) between English and Mandarin speakers...
.. but you'd have to control-out our early years education differences somehow.
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… I can’t help but feel that Patel et al’s concern for MPs’ safety is disproportionate in a country where the safety of half the population is constantly called into question.
Ultimately “security” (policing etc) is not the solution.
It’s treating symptoms not causes.
This country needs to address the causes of these crimes against MPs *and* women and minorities - not plaster over the cracks with a big show of force.
Force will only mask the inexorable *growth* of the problem. To be met with what? More force. Ad infinitum.
Endless wars, global pandemics, rich dying of disinformation, poor dying of famine & flood, rising populism, declining freedoms and occasional economic collapse & austerity.
There is a simple solution..
..but first a little “why”.
In the UK & US we like to think that we live in a practical democracy; that it’s “a place where the people really decide regularly how to be governed”.
This myth is based on the facade that depicts a real, meaningful choice at the ballot box.
Tracking the boycott of Facebook Over the past few days a number of huge global brands have mounted a boycott of Facebook + Twitter. I have been tracking the progress here. #KnowWhatMattersonesub.io/~jimbo/1ip06x0…
The first I heard of the campaign starting to gain traction was Patagonia’s boycott - Patagonia though, seemed like a likely candidate.. onesub.io/~jimbo/1ip06x0…
Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Perhaps the biggest looser of this change is Facebook who rely heavily on the IDFA to feed data to their own ad platform. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Perhaps the biggest looser of this change is Facebook who rely heavily on the IDFA to feed data to their own ad platform. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
@CaseyNewton raised an interesting point Thursday last; that as well as being pro-privacy, Apple's moves are really rather anti-competitive... onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…