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I'm the chimpion! Ape trounces the best of the human world in memory competition
The Daily Mail ^ | 25th January 2008 | FIONA MACRAE

Posted on 01/25/2008 1:12:50 PM PST by Nachum

When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competition they faced.

But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore.

Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up in captivity in Japan, did three times as well as Mr Pridmore at a computer game which involved remembering the position of numbers on a screen.

And that's no mean feat - the 30-year-old accountant from Derby is capable of memorising the order of a shuffled pack of cards in under 30 seconds.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ape; chimpion; competition; memory

1 posted on 01/25/2008 1:12:57 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Once you’ve had kids, you’re immediately disqualified from all memory contests.

;)


2 posted on 01/25/2008 1:14:36 PM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Nachum
Where's the cage key at Kong?
:)
3 posted on 01/25/2008 1:17:37 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Slapshot68
Once you’ve had kids, you’re immediately disqualified from all memory contests.

LOL! My mom used to tell me that -- that parenting was bad for your concentration. Then one day when I was around 22 or so, I found out she could memorize a shuffled deck of cards. You could have knocked me over. How come she never mentioned it before? She shrugged and said it wasn't important. Just one of those things. (!)

4 posted on 01/25/2008 1:22:41 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Just - my - humble - opinion.)
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To: Nachum

I wonder how it would do against those kids that memorize pi to ad infinitum and spend hours reciting it.


5 posted on 01/25/2008 1:26:11 PM PST by SlapHappyPappy
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I thought this was a test of the replacement for the butterfly ballot in Florida.... But I guessed wrong.
6 posted on 01/25/2008 1:27:13 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEd)
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To: Nachum

Yes, but does he have a 250GB Hard Drive?


7 posted on 01/25/2008 1:32:40 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Amnesty! Taxes! Censorship! Terrorist Rights! NY Times Endorsed! McCain! < / sarc>)
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To: Nachum

We’ll be working for the chimps one day. Yawn. I hope they get cable.


8 posted on 01/25/2008 1:32:44 PM PST by rhombus
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To: Nachum

Silly scientists.

That’s why humans have the yellow pages.


9 posted on 01/25/2008 1:33:26 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Nachum
Careful, scientists...


10 posted on 01/25/2008 1:36:06 PM PST by Constitution Day (Damn Dirty Apes!)
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To: Nachum
I would like to offer a warm welcome to our new overlords.


11 posted on 01/25/2008 1:37:03 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Nachum

I am suspicious of the results. This almost seems like a John Henry type of situation, where the ape was trained for one purpose, but the human can do a much greater variety of tasks.

That said, I heard somewhere that human memory sacrificed factual information for concepts. Why memorize every even number when you can memorize the concept of counting up by 2?


12 posted on 01/25/2008 1:38:00 PM PST by dan1123 (You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. --Jesus)
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To: Constitution Day

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!


13 posted on 01/25/2008 1:38:53 PM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: Nachum
Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa, the Kyoto University researcher behind both sets of experiments, said: "People still believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in any domain of intelligence.

"That is the prejudice of the people."


Ah propaganda for the advocates of the Mediocrity Principle. Tell me when an ape can type a grammatically correct ten word sentence of its own composition and I will be impressed.
14 posted on 01/25/2008 1:42:28 PM PST by dan1123 (You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. --Jesus)
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To: freedomson

;^)


15 posted on 01/25/2008 1:45:30 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: dan1123

Otto: “Apes don’t read Nietzsche!”
Wanda: “Yes they DO, Otto, they just don’t understand it! ...”


16 posted on 01/25/2008 1:47:16 PM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Nachum

This is not new. It was posted here several weeks or months ago.
The article is pure monkey droppings.
Memory is one small capability of the mind. The ability to remember foolish nonsense is no indicator of intelligence.
I don’t give one monkey’s ass if a monkey can remember more stupid things than me!
This is just one more example of some scientists trying desperately to “prove” that human intelligence is really no better than that of animals.


17 posted on 01/25/2008 1:56:02 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Nachum

Chimps are also vastly superior in plucking the arms off of people.


18 posted on 01/25/2008 2:06:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: dfwgator

One of my favorite movie lines of all time. It has come in handy here on FR a few times.


19 posted on 01/25/2008 3:06:48 PM PST by Defiant (Curse correctly: Instead of "goddammit" it's "Allah be damned".)
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To: Constitution Day; PBRSTREETGANG
At least one computer objected.


20 posted on 01/25/2008 10:42:23 PM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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