This week’s EU:Sci podcast includes an interview with me about my work on spurious correlations between social structures and linguistic structures (see my overview post here). Christos Christodoulopoulos challenges me to find a link between the number of children a family has and the basic word order they use. Complete nonsense with an important message: Any correlation is possible.
Edit: A longer version of my interview at EU:Sci is now available online, Listen here!
Great stuff. I especially liked the line: “You could certainly use this technique for evil”. I’m now going to get a t-shirt printed with that phrase accompanied by an Acacia tree and the correlations.