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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.
The chimp would probably eat the child, just so it doesn't get stuck doing pointless experiments.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
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.
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I am scientifically inaccurate.
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?
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