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This very good post! Yay Yvain! You have high karma. Please give me stock advice.
I know a guy who constructed a 10-dimensional metric space for English words, then did PCA on it. There were only 4 significant components: good-bad, calm-exciting, open-closed, basic-elaborate. They accounted for 65%, 20%, 9%, and 5% of the variance in the 10-dimensional space, leaving 1% for everything else. This means that we need only 8 adjectives in English 99% of the time.
This could be explored more deeply in another post.
I agree that it could use more exploration. I suspect that many of our biases stem from simple preference ranking errors.
I'm pretty sure I actually saw this in a philosophy textbook, which would mean there are likely observations or studies on the subject.