According to Physorg.com, dogs are dumber than we once thought. Oh… and by the way … they cheat on tests too. “Chimpanzees and two-year-old children are as clever as each other but dogs are not as smart as previously thought, according to a
Dr Emma Collier-Baker added more accurate controls to a famous logic experiment in which a desired object – food or a toy – is transferred from a small container into one of three boxes by subjects in a basic IQ test.
Participant were expected to identify the box containing the object by pointing at it or walking over to it. The basic test, devised by developmental psychologist Jean Piaget in the 1930s, shows an ability “think” about objects not visible.
Check out the interesting research discovery … which included 35 dogs of various breeds – and showed that dogs used other simple cues to find the object. The new accurate measures proved dogs did not ‘think' or use logic at all, but they tricked us all this time.
In the vernacular … it seems to me that you could say the other animals and toddlers are as smart as we thought all along … but dogs seemed to want us to believe they were smarter too.
Sound like any dogs you know out there?
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