The humans are easier to train to do a task a certain way. Which probably makes them better employees.
This must be the background data on the recent Fox News impeachment poll.
The monkey believes the point is to earn a banana; the human believes the point is to help researchers.
All that proves is that monkeys will cheat any chance they get........Never trust a monkey
Volition could be considered the consequence of a weighted sum of competing urges. Among them in people, unlike monkeys, would be a desire to follow the rules for their own sake.
I’ve run into a few cheating Monkeys during my Lifetime.
They were the most fun, that’s for sure.
We’re supposed to starve the monkeys, not give them banana pellets.
I also wonder how the results would differ if the humans got banana pellets as a reward too...
The monkeys have no moral compass.
They also throw poop...
It is more difficult to un-learn something that it was to learn it in the first place..............
It just shows monkeys are less set in their ways than humans. Once a human gets into a habit its very tough to change. Democrat voters are a prime example.
I think I’d try harder for a banana pellet than an ‘auditory whoop.’
Who knew Mickey Dolenz was an accomplished online gamer?
I would imagine that just about any monkey could beat me at computer games. Spatial problems or games are very difficult for me, though I’m pretty intelligent in most other ways. Not only do I not do well in those sorts of problems, video games of the most elementary content increase anxiety in me, so I don’t find them the least bit enjoyable.
The monkeys also don't feel any social pressure to please anyone or do something the "right" way.
Food or a whoop. Food or a whoop. Hmmm, which could possibly increase the learning curve?
Gee. The Stanford Marshmallow Test as applied to comparative testing between humans and apes.
Only in this case, the apes are considered ‘smarter’ for simply grabbing that marshmallow, rather than waiting for the second.
The humans are easier to train to do a task a certain way. Which probably makes them better employees.
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Or, maybe, these humans assumed it was just a glitch and were concerned about messing up the “study” results.
Linky?
They are lazy, unmotivated, lacking in curiosity, intimated by learning, or some combination thereof. Generally, I would say that humans simply lack initiative and that may be a cultural thing (perhaps they have become hypnotized by human society into believing that the greatest reward comes from seeking the status quo).
On the other hand, the squirrels and raccoons who live in my yard are extremely bright, aggressive, and curious...always figuring out new ways to beat the system (the system in this case being me).;-)
This proves that Dems evolved from monkeys.