On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Andre Uratsuka Manoel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 19:14, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.slate.com/id/2249565/pagenum/all/#p2 >> In this recent study by Leif Nelson and Joseph Simmons in the Journal >> of Marketing Research, a number of subjects were asked to estimate the >> travel time for a northbound versus southbound bird. The majority of >> respondents believed traveling north from the equator would take >> longer than the reverse. > I wonder if that is still the same in places (like Brazil) where > people don't have expressions equating "south" and "north" with > quantities.
I think the article was making the point that people thought that going North was tougher because they unconsciously equated it, in their heads, with going "up" against gravity. That is different from equating North/South with quantities or levels of economic development. Thaths -- "Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman... and I have no interest in that, besides wearing the occasional underwear, which as we discussed is strictly a comfort thing." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
