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Which of the Following Experimental Results Best Refutes the Linguistic

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Which of the following experimental results best refutes the linguistic relativity hypothesis?


A) Members of a primitive tribe who were asked to perform a task using top-down processing completed it more quickly than those using bottom-up processing.
B) Members of a primitive tribe whose language has no words for colors could still think about a wide variety of colors.
C) People who had to rotate a consonant 90 degrees to compare it to a prototype recognized it more quickly than people who had to rotate it 180 degrees.
D) People retrieved the word "brown" faster than "muddy brown."

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