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Faulty Reasoning with Bunk Funders: Word Synesthesia

June 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Doodles

In 1929, a psychologist named Wolfgang Köhler conducted the following experiment: He presented two shapes, one with curves and rounded edges, and one with straight lines and sharp edges, and then asked participants to name them either “maluma” or “takete.” If you would tend to name the round and voluptuous shape maluma, and [...]

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