Discussion: Is Bilingualism Really an Advantage?

From Joe Pater

I had heard suspicions about the robustness of Bialystok’s findings from colleagues in Cognitive Psychology, so I wasn’t too surprised to see this. It’s of broader interest because it brings up some of the publication bias issues in the “replication crisis”, and discusses an interesting way of checking for this: by looking at conference papers for potential null results / counter evidence.

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/bilingual-advantage-aging-brain?mbid=social_facebook

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