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 Because the Eskimo language has many words for snow,the strongest form of the Whorfian hypothesis maintains that Europeans could not understand snow as the Eskimo do.How could Europeans gain an appreciation for snow somewhat akin to the Eskimo and what would the Whorfian hypothesis have to say about this?


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Multiple Regression Model

A predictive method in statistics that uses a range of explanatory variables to estimate the result of a dependent variable.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or statistical model that are manipulated or categorized to determine their effect on dependent variables without being affected by any other variable in the model.

Homoscedasticity

A term in statistics describing a situation where all random variables across a dataset have the same finite variance.

Normality Of Errors

An assumption in many statistical models that the errors in the predictions are normally distributed.

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