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closeProblem with replication?
Posted by redfield on 14 Jul 2012 at 18:49 GMT
Mark Liberman on the Language Log blog has been trying to replicate this result, so far without success. See http://languagelog.ldc.up... and http://languagelog.ldc.up...
RE: Problem with replication?
jtwenge replied to redfield on 05 Aug 2012 at 18:26 GMT
The blog post linked here does not perform a replication -- it simply graphs the words and phrases. The key analyses in the paper are the regression equations, which include both the communal and individualistic words and phrases and control for their common variance.
This is key, because both the communal and individualistic words and phrases were generated by a modern sample, so we would expect them both to go up (this is explained at length in the paper). This blog post does not do those regressions, so it is not a replication study of any sort.