Several weeks back I tweeted the preliminary results from a new research project that uses World Values Survey data to test the linguistic relativity thesis. Speakers of languages whose word for “tea” is borrowed from the Mandarin “cha” rather than the Taiwanese “te” are statistically significantly more likely to believe that their political system should […]

Kieran Healy recently tweeted that The tweet references a new paper by Allan Dafoe, Baobao Zhang, and Devin Caughey that shows that survey respondents, when presented with information about one attribute, update their beliefs about others too. Labeling a country “a democracy,” for example, affects subjects’ beliefs about the country’s geographic location. This is a […]