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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."
The last time I was in Wal*Mart these 4 kids were going completely apeshit knocking things over, causing other shoppers problems, making a ton of noise... and their mother kept trying to reason with them and kept telling them what was going to happen if they didn't behave.
NOW... if those lil fuckers had been mine, I would have damn well made sure they understood cause and effect. See, this is what we get when our schools aren't allowed to whoop ass anymore. I'm certain these mongrels would have scored higher than some chimp.
You mean to say... in Kansas chimps evolve from YOU?
That article only proves they're much more like humans than most think. What species is more violent than man? None.
Have you not been to the inner city or at least watched five minutes of Mtv lately?
Someone hates these cans.
These weren't Neocon children, perchance?
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