论文标题
文化紧密指数的有效性以及与创造力和秩序的关联都是虚假的 - 对杰克逊等人的评论
Both the validity of the cultural tightness index and the association with creativity and order are spurious -- a comment on Jackson et al
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论文摘要
最近在一项在《自然人类行为》上发表的一项研究中提出，美国文化的历史松弛与更高的创造力和较低阶段之间的权衡有关。为此，杰克逊等人。基于Google Books Ngram语料库生成语言索引，并使用此指数表明美国规范在1800年至2000年之间松动。尽管我们对美国文化的潜在松弛和与创造力/秩序的统计关联仍然不可知，但我们在这里显示了Jackson等人使用的方法。既不适合测试索引的有效性，也不适合与创造力/秩序建立可能的关系。
It was recently suggested in a study published in Nature Human Behaviour that the historical loosening of American culture was associated with a trade-off between higher creativity and lower order. To this end, Jackson et al. generate a linguistic index of cultural tightness based on the Google Books Ngram corpus and use this index to show that American norms loosened between 1800 and 2000. While we remain agnostic toward a potential loosening of American culture and a statistical association with creativity/order, we show here that the methods used by Jackson et al. are neither suitable for testing the validity of the index nor for establishing possible relationships with creativity/order.
