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I think you mean Sapir-Whorf. My understanding was that's not been proven to a sufficient extent to use it as any kind of hard evidence that language influences complex decisions like long-term financial planning.


Well, they didn't use Sapir-Whorf to prove that "language influences complex decisions like long-term financial planning".

They did their own research, from scratch, to see if that happens, research that would also help to prove Sapir-Whorf.




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