Young chimp beats college students - Page 1

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Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in two tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

That challenges the belief of many people, including many scientists, that "humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto UniversityNo one can imagine that chimpanzees — young chimpanzees at the age of 5 — have a better performance in a memory task than humans," he said in a statement.

Matsuzawa, a pioneer in studying the mental abilities of chimps, said even he was surprised. He and colleague Sana Inoue report the results in Tuesday's issue of the journal Current Biology.

One memory test included three 5-year-old chimps who'd been taught the order of Arabic numerals 1 through 9, and a dozen human volunteers.

They saw nine numbers displayed on a computer screen. When they touched the first number, the other eight turned into white squares. The test was to touch all these squares in the order of the numbers that used to be there.

Results showed that the chimps, while no more accurate than the people, could do this faster.

One chimp, Ayumu, did the best. Researchers included him and nine college students in a second test.

lol!

I thought you meant "beat" as in "beat up!!"  

lmao, no

I should've had chimps instead of kids. Think how much money I would have saved on their college!

How can you compare college students with a chimp and think you are getting an accurate test.  College students smoke more weed and drink more beer than the average adult.  Weed kills your short-term memory.  Unless the Chimp  smokes weed, I think this is an invalid test.

Well, the chimp is at the college too. Maybe he scored some good stuff from a new arrival from S. America?

you guys are funny

Andy.

This short video of clip of Miss South Carolina explains it all.  This is the dumbing down of America, No child Left behind, training a bunch of robots. No critical thinking skills apply, Miss SC is a Straight A student, mind you.  

Homeschooling for all of my children-thank you.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Szcx0VkRo

lol i thought you meant "beat up" too. I was ready to start lmao. Interesting, though. haha.

-emily.