[CPT-FGC] Re: [CPT-RPG] Re: Stuff off

  • From: Ilitirit Sama <ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:57:24 +0200

Some of you guys may have read about the Pirahã.  They are a tribe in the
Amazon that whose language doesn't have a concept of numbers.  Our vs their
understanding of quantities is akin to digital vs analog.

This is the best case of the Dunning-Kruger
effect<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect>I've
read about so far:

Nothing about the Pirahã's self-contained way of life seems to require
> quantity recognition over three, says Everett, a fact that's not lost on
> outsiders, who sometimes take advantage of them when trading goods.


The Pirahã consider all forms of human discourse other than their own to be
> laughably inferior, and they are unique among Amazonian peoples in
> remaining monolingual.
>

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/10/16/piraha_cognitive_anumeracy_in_a_language_without_numbers.html

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