Counting Numbers & The Ability To Think
Really interesting, although perhaps a little controversial, article in New Scientist, where psychologists have studied a tribe which has counting words only for “one”, “two” and “many”. So for three objects or thirty they use the same word. Apparently, they just have very little need to count in daily life.
So what’s interesting here? In a variety of tests, the tribe members were tested on their ability to count objects. “In the simplest, he sat opposite an individual and laid out a random more here http://logicalscience.com/2010/01/counting-numbers-the-ability-to-think/
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