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NalNezumi a day ago

I can't quite find the study but there was one mentioned to me about showing the Ravens progressive matrices test to hunter / gatherer tribes, and they did horribly. But those tribes do geometric pattern recognition on the daily basis during hunting, so the tester tried to modify the base shapes to mimic more "realistic" shapes for hunter gatherers (rather than unusual shapes such as perfect triangle, circles and rectangles, hard to find in nature) and the score normalized to median.

I was told this in context of "cultural psychology" how many tests or psychological observations and metrics poorly translate over culture. (especially when you try to pin it on some success metric)