Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 January 2010 06:51:22PM 3 points [-]

That is pretty ridiculous - enough to make me want to check the original study for effect size and statistical significance. Writing newspaper articles on research without giving the original paper title ought to be outlawed.

Comment author: AllanCrossman 18 January 2010 09:49:44PM *  1 point [-]

"Small Sounds, Big Deals: Phonetic Symbolism Effects in Pricing", DOI: 10.1086/651241

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/651241

Whether you'll be able to access it I know not.