Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
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Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
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Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#2Mandela was a terrorist. What's next, 'Hitler was right'?
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#3Not really relevant to the point of the article, but worth mentioning:
The article's commentary on the _Asian Disease_ problem which states "the number of certain deaths is the same in both versions of the problem.." is incorrect. In case A, the number of certain deaths is 400,000, in case B it's 0.
Or am I reading it incorrectly ?
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#4Mandela was a terrorist. What's next, 'Hitler was right'?
Release that anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to dark side. Dark side has cookies. Cookies lead to weight gain. Weight gain leads to unhappiness.
Therefore anger leads to unhappiness. Trust me I'm a doctor[0].
[0] not really, but you should still trust me.
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#5Not really relevant to the point of the article, but worth mentioning: The article's commentary on the _Asian Disease_ problem which states "the number of certain deaths is the same in both versions of the problem.." is incorrect. In case A, the number of certain deaths is 400,000, in case B it's 0. Or am I reading it incorrectly ?
You are correct, it's the expected number that is the same.
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#6Mandela was a terrorist. What's next, 'Hitler was right'?
You misspelled "freedom fighter" and deserve downvotes for attempting to shut down discussion with a bogus analogy.
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#7Not really relevant to the point of the article, but worth mentioning: The article's commentary on the _Asian Disease_ problem which states "the number of certain deaths is the same in both versions of the problem.." is incorrect. In case A, the number of certain deaths is 400,000, in case B it's 0. Or am I reading it incorrectly ?
You are correct, it's the expected number that is the same.
As I understand it, there is not enough information to determine the expected number of deaths. In the first situation, the expected number of deaths of choosing medicine A must be greater than or equal to 400k and in the second situation (again choosing medicine A) the expected number of deaths must be less than or equal to 400k.
My interpretation was that in the first situation, there is a possibility that everyone dies if you choose medicine A, therefore B was the right choice. Similarly, in the second situation, there is a possibility that everyone lives if you choose medicine A, therefore A was the right choice. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but there does not appear to be enough information in the question to determine the exact probabilities.
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#8Mandela was a terrorist. What's next, 'Hitler was right'?
Another example where it might be useful to disable commenting from new accounts for 24 hours.
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#9Mandela was a terrorist. What's next, 'Hitler was right'?
Release that anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to dark side. Dark side has cookies. Cookies lead to weight gain. Weight gain leads to unhappiness. Therefore anger leads to unhappiness. Trust me I'm a doctor[0]. [0] not really, but you should still trust me.
Cookies? I thought the dark side had pie.
I was told there'd be pie.
Re: Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
#10I know this is not really the point of the article, but what language other than Afrikaans could Mandela and de Klerk have used? Xosha? I doubt de Klerk knew more than a few words of it at the time. Neither of the two spoke English natively.