Thursday, April 24, 2008
When Language Can Hold the Answer
This is a great article that describes studies done by Dr. Gary Lupyan, who is currently working and doing research here at Cornell. The article is very self-explanatory in how it relates to science communication.
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Whoa! This was a very cool article, and it hit close to campus as well. I always wonder how people design such experiments. No offense to social scientists, but I have this love for working in a bio/chem research lab. So when I read about psychological/social science studies, I'm really fascinated by what they studied and how they collected the results. When you are working with people as the subjects, quantifying the data is really "weird." "They looked this way, they said this, they visited this link so many times."
I think it is funny how the writer associates language as a "skill set" that backfires on us: " Just as adding features to a cellphone or camera can backfire, language is not always helpful. For the most part, it enhances thinking. But it can trip us up, too." I found it amusing that the example was that of a cellphone, another communication media. (Or maybe I'm just the only one amused by this analogy).
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