@ Chibani : tres bonne question… a la lecture de l’article, il semble qu’elle soit culturelle :

“Aristotle, for example, focused on objects. A rock sank in water because it had the property of gravity, wood floated because it had the property of floating. He would not have mentioned the water. The Chinese, though, considered all actions related to the medium in which they occurred, so they understood tides and magnetism long before the West did”.

@the5322 : cette experience merite en effet d’etre elargie (a d’autres cultures, pays…) et confirme notre intuition finalement. L’article donne une lecon interessante :

“When you look beyond this study to all of the studies finding cultural differences, you find that people from one culture do better on some tasks, while people from other cultures do better on others” : cela expliquerait le sens du detail nippon par exemple, et donc leurs performances dans les produits high-tech de qualite. Mais le Japon me parait encore etre une autre histoire par rapport a ses cousins asiatiques…