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# Dog–Lab–Coat

## Details

**Reported in** Relationships Organize Information in Mind and Nature (R)

**Authors** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E

**Year** 2022

**Publisher** Systems 10(3):71

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10030071) 
10.3390/systems10030071

## In authors' words

### Who or what was studied (sample)

N ≈ 200 per cell

### How they did it (methods)

Free description with pre-planned distractors (Tree, Snow), three coders, demographic mediators ruled out by contingency tables. The same word pair run in both directions.

Badges: bidirectional, 3 coders

### What they found (results)

COAT given LAB: 1/203 (0.4%) → 44.6%. LAB given DOG: 14/195 → 47%. LAB given COAT: 7/202 → 29.7%. COAT given DOG: 4/241 → 39.2%.

## Commentary

### Response

Pre-empt the obvious objection: LAB is lexically ambiguous, so a critic will call DOG–LAB disambiguation rather than copriming. Point at DOG→COAT — 4/241 to 39.2%, producing 'fur' and 'dog-clothing' — where no ambiguity exists. The effect survives with the ambiguous pair deleted.

Shows the structure is there

## Questions it bears on

- Q3. [Does this organization (O) exist in the mind, and in what minds produce?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-mind)
- Q4. [Does this organization (O) exist in reality?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-reality)
- Q11. [What are perception and attention?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/perception-attention)
- Q12. [What is memory?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/memory)
- Q13. [What is context (C)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/context)
- Q21. [What is bias (B)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/bias)

**How to cite this** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E (2022). Dog–Lab–Coat. Systems 10(3):71.