Your text describes research with participants who lived in remote Amazon tribes and spoke languages that lacked a counting system or specific words for numbers. What conclusion did the researchers reach?
A)Language has a powerful effect on perception; people who speak different languages have a completely different view of the world.
B)Language categories can affect how individuals think about particular concepts. Without a number concept, the indigenous people were only able to use relative terms like "few," "some," and "many" instead of exact numbers to describe quantities.
C)The study showed that, even though the languages of the isolated tribes lacked number words, they had sophisticated systems for describing colors.
D)The study showed that, without a number concept, the indigenous people were unable to distinguish between "few," "some," and "many."

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The researchers concluded that language categories, specifically the lack of a number concept, affected how the indigenous people thought about quantities. They were only able to use relative terms like "few," "some," and "many" instead of exact numbers to describe quantities.

Your Text Describes Research with Participants Who Lived in Remote