cupholder comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cupholder 12 April 2010 06:58:28AM 2 points [-]

That's odd. The Wilson quote in aausch's post heavily implies that Freeman spoke Samoan and Mead didn't. But Paul Shankman's Skeptic article says

Mead was a competent fieldworker who spoke Samoan with a degree of fluency and who understood Samoan joking.

Hmm. Wonder who's right.