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Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Telegraph reports that researchers using tests originally designed to demonstrate the development of language, pre-language and basic arithmetic in human children have found that dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures, can count up to five and can perform simple mathematical calculations putting them on par with the average two-year-old child. While most dogs understand simple commands such as sit, fetch and stay, a border collie tested by Professor Coren showed a knowledge of 200 spoken words. 'Obviously we are not going to be able to sit down and have a conversation with a dog, but like a two-year-old, they show that they can understand words and gestures,' says Professor Stanley Coren, a leading expert on canine intelligence at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Dogs can tell that one plus one should equal two and not one or three,' says Coren, adding that dogs 'can also deliberately deceive, which is something that young children only start developing later in their life.' Coren believes centuries of selective breeding and living alongside humans has helped to hone the intelligence of dogs. 'They may not be Einsteins, but are sure closer to humans than we thought.'"
Since African IQ is typically 20 points less (i. e., 20% less) than European IQ or Japanese IQ, we can roughly estimate that dog intelligence approximates the intelligence of an African who is 2.4 years old. 2 + 0.2 * 2 = 2.4 years.
Like niggers and asians and white people. Obviously white people are the stupid breed among humans.
...my dog is a lot like Einstein, in that her hair goes everywhere and she refuses to accept quantum mechanics.
There's no reason we can't have a Schrödinger's dog too. Try it. Whether the dog survives or not, it'll have a far greater appreciation of quantum mechanics. Note: Do not put Schrödinger dog with Schrödinger cat. Experimental results may be random.
AQctually, if they did that, then if the dog didn't survive, then whoever did the tests would be getting slammed by PETA all of the time, and still, even if the dog did survive, they would still be attacking.
Lets not forget PETA is behind much of this euthanasia. Rendering them fucking hypocrites.
In other news, a study reported that Creationists are as intelligent as average two year old dogs.