Booya! Welcome to the very first “official” post at the relaunched, self-hosted, cheerfulegg.com! I spent the weekend migrating to a self-hosted website, which means I take your cheerfulegg reading experience seriously enough to actually pay to get those pesky ads removed. Woot woot.
Anyways, it’s been awhile since I posted a TED talk, so I’ll share one I thought was pretty interesting in a nerdy, academic sort of way. This one is by Keith Chen, who came up with a pretty interesting hypothesis:
Speaking Mandarin makes you more likely to save.
No, seriously, fareals. Check it out:
Okay more accurately, Chen argued that speaking a futureless language (like Mandarin) makes you more likely to save. Conversely, speaking a “futured” language (like English) makes you less likely to save.
The results seem to pan out in real life: China saves a whopping 54% of their income, while the ...
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