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From the Ted Talk by Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?

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Can we push this data even further? Yes, because I just told you, we actually collect a lot of health data as economists. Now how can we think about hlteah behaviors to think about savings? Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep ssnee negative savings. If savings is current pain in egacxnhe for fuutre puaerlse, smoking is just the opposite. It's current pleasure in exchange for future pain. What we should expect then is the opposite effect. And that's exactly what we find. ftsreeulus language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical flmiieas, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a cdoonm in their last sexual encounter. I could go on and on with the list of differences that you can find. It's almost impossible not to find a snvaigs behavior for which this strong effect isn't present.

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Can we push this data even further? Yes, because I just told you, we actually collect a lot of health data as economists. Now how can we think about ______ behaviors to think about savings? Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep _____ negative savings. If savings is current pain in ________ for ______ ________, smoking is just the opposite. It's current pleasure in exchange for future pain. What we should expect then is the opposite effect. And that's exactly what we find. __________ language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical ________, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a ______ in their last sexual encounter. I could go on and on with the list of differences that you can find. It's almost impossible not to find a _______ behavior for which this strong effect isn't present.

Solution


  1. pleasure
  2. savings
  3. health
  4. future
  5. exchange
  6. futureless
  7. condom
  8. families
  9. sense

Original Text


Can we push this data even further? Yes, because I just told you, we actually collect a lot of health data as economists. Now how can we think about health behaviors to think about savings? Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep sense negative savings. If savings is current pain in exchange for future pleasure, smoking is just the opposite. It's current pleasure in exchange for future pain. What we should expect then is the opposite effect. And that's exactly what we find. Futureless language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical families, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter. I could go on and on with the list of differences that you can find. It's almost impossible not to find a savings behavior for which this strong effect isn't present.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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oecd countries 2
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united states 2
futured languages 2

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collocation frequency
futureless language speakers 5
oecd countries saving 2

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