Interesting Links for 21-05-2020

[andrewducker]

Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don't spread the virus at all?(tags:virus pandemic )Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don't spread the virus at all?(tags:pandemic virus ) I am very curious as to how this letter from Michel Barnier is landing with the government(tags:UK Europe Doom )The

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[woodpijn]

I am sceptical about that study of children and colour names

[woodpijn]

Bethany actually knew colours earlier than she knew a lot of common words, and she used to use colours as a circumlocution when she didn't know the word she wanted. I have an LJ entry about her doing that at nearly 2 and another one three months later where she sometimes still did this (asking us to move the "yellow red" to the "yellow", meaning the chair to the desk) but sometimes continued to use the colour in addition to the word once she'd learned the word, like "green stairs" (when I don't think anyone would ever have told her the stairs were green, so that had to have been her own observation) or "blue black swing" (ditto).
But I think this is unusual and probably linked to being on the autism spectrum.
Zoe's acquisition of colours was more typical. At 1 and a half she was using them randomly, like saying "purple pen" for a green pen, but I'm pretty sure that at 2 she was using them correctly (although I don't have contemporary blog evidence).

[andrewducker]

Interesting!

Sophia is not random, but she definitely doesn't have them nailed down yet. "Orange" clearly means "colourful" at the moment, for instance. But we're now trying the technique from the article, and I'm curious if that makes for a swift improvement.