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Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test
caffeinemessiah writes "The New York Times has a story on how chimpanzees seem to exhibit a better understanding of cause and effect than human children. While training chimps to perform a routine task with redundant steps, the chimps were able to figure out and eliminate the redundant steps, while the human children routinely performed them despite their evident uselessness. It says something about the way we learn compared to chimps and should be interesting to cognitive scientists and those interested in computational learning theory, at the least."
Chimps will always be chimps.
Lucky bastards.
there's more than one way to do me.
oh, and First Post(though i've probably failed it, i have Karma to burn so do whatever to me)
/. is overrun by bed-wetting elitist nerds
let it be known, for anything other than servers, a *nix OS sucks
The chimp would probably eat the child, just so it doesn't get stuck doing pointless experiments.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
True. A more useful interspecies study would have compared human children and politicians, since politicians seem to have no grasp on cause-and-effect regardless of age.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I believe this study.
...I read the article title as "Chimpanzees Beat Children in Reasoning Test".
I didn't know what sort of a reasoning test involved children and simians to engage in fisticuffs, but I was all for it.
hi mom!
What? like running windows, if it is really working as intended, it should crash on boot, saveing all that valuable work time you could have spent so you can look at buying a new PC
...
$ook = new Banana.GiveMeBanana();
my $stomach = _FULL_;
my $sound = loudContentedScreech();
throwFeces();
?>
I am scientifically inaccurate.
I'm shocked. Shocked!
Fool! The banana is with the BLUE button! Not the RED one!
Seriously man, did Rasmus Lerdorf systematically kill off every one of your remaining family members, or something?
Seriously man. These are all CyricZ PHP trolls from THIS MONTH. I skipped a good 10 that were all on the "PHP5 Recipes" thread, for sanity's sake.
Don't leave us hangin, man; did they learn why?
El Wife and I got a puppy recently (at about 6 weeks old) and I started training her from day one.
I agree, you should always train your wife from day one.
And what if there's nothing behind the door until it is being opened?
Yeah, it's probably that they don't even consider us worth communicating with.
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
I know that that sounds entroniant, perhaps even bleavisome, but it had to be said.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
El Wife and I got a puppy recently
...her?
Did you....ahh..check under the hood before you married
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan