http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TED Talks video, the TED Prize and more. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-39333 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:36:05 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-39333 […] in my life recently.  First, I read an article about a TED talk that fascinated me.  Economist Keith Chen explored different linguistic characteristics and whether the structure of language impacts a […]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-36068 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:23:20 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-36068 [...] posts touched off a series of additional conversations, which you can find outlined here. Not being an expert in either field, I’ll leave it to you if you want to continue down the [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-35658 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:53:18 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-35658 [...] Чем Китай, Эстония и Германия отличаются от Индии, Греции или Великобритании? Для экономиста ответ очевиден: уровнем сбережений. Например, немцы откладывают на черный день на 10 процентов больше, чем британцы, в то время как эстонцы и китайцы в целом на 20 процентов бережливее, чем греки или индийцы (в основе расчетов лежит ВВП). [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-34992 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:49:16 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-34992 [...] What can economists learn from linguists? Behavioral economist Keith Chen introduces a fascinating pattern from his research: that languages without a concept for the future — “It rain tomorrow,” instead of “It will rain tomorrow” — correlate strongly with high savings rates. Read more about Chen’s explorations [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-33830 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:30:04 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-33830 [...] http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-… [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-32755 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:23:20 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-32755 [...] More from Kevin’s blog. [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-32406 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:25:08 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-32406 [...] Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-31891 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:11:40 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-31891 [...] Keith Chen said in his TED Video that how a language is constructed may have a relationship on the behaviors of a people. With [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-31567 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:02:13 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-31567 [...] when he put up a recent blog post about his work, he slipped up and stated the opposite of one of his results. He wrote: “a 20 percentage [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-31263 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:58:49 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=69747#comment-31263 [...] tested his hypothesis looking at uses of morphological future tense marking in weather reports (here). While this is impressive, it still relies on large-scale, cross-cultural statistics. It would be [...]

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