Young Chimp Beats College Students - Democratic Underground

katty

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Tue Dec-04-07 03:19 PM
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Young Chimp Beats College Students

more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071203/D8TA8PA80.html
Young Chimp Beats College Students

Dec 3, 6:07 PM (ET)

By MALCOLM RITTER

NEW YORK (AP) - Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in 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 University.

"No 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.

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DS1

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Tue Dec-04-07 03:22 PM
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1. Again?

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jgraz

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Tue Dec-04-07 03:22 PM
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2. I keep saying we shouldn't compare them to *. He's more of a lower primate

Then again, LEMURPEACH just doesn't have the same ring to it.

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Lautremont

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Tue Dec-04-07 03:23 PM
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3. They're lucky he didn't rip their faces and balls off.

That's typical angry-chimp behaviour. That or starting a war.

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onyourleft

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Tue Dec-04-07 05:37 PM
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4. That's because the young chimps...

...haven't been subjected to "No Child Left Behind." :)

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