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Monkeys Exhibit the Same Economic Irrationality As Us

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-wanna-spend-like-you-oo-oo dept.

grrlscientist writes "Laurie Santos is trying to find the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primates make decisions. This video documents a clever series of experiments in 'monkeynomics' and shows that some of the stupid decisions we make are made by our primate relatives too."

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  1. seems they've been watching government by rcpitt · · Score: 2, Funny

    mistook the legislature for a barrel of monkeys

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  2. It's called a Bonzi Scheme by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you have four monkeys with bananas, and they give their bananas to the first guy, right? Then the four monkeys each look to recruit four more monkeys, and get their bananas...

  3. Re:Meh. by ultrabot · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they buy Apples too, huh?

    Yeah, I think I saw a monkey holding a phone in a weird fashion the other day.

    And another monkey reading a book on objective C.

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  4. Re:Evidence that monkeys are smarter by RichMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    You ever see a human with a Zune?

  5. Why? Do they get Best Buy extended warranties too? by bADlOGIN · · Score: 2, Funny

    Although come to think of it, I do wonder how many bananas Best Buy get's for a crappy Sandisk MP3 player w/ 3 year extended warranty....

    Nah. That would require me to RTFA.

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  6. Re:Evidence that monkeys are smarter by oldmac31310 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did once. She was an animal.

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