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tree (tree) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-06-18 15:51:00


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Pet intelligence wank
The Guardian: Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test.

You can imagine how well this goes with the readers. Besides the predictable flood of pet owner butthurt and anecdotes of clever / stupid cats / dogs / mice / owls, there are plenty of genuinely funny comments as well as a side wank on the validity of test methods and statistics, obligatory calls to talk about world hunger instead or discuss the intelligence of various nationalities, and, naturally, Hitler and his pets make a bonus appearance. I think one could play classical wank bingo in here, but some of the stories make it all worthwhile.


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[info]alya1989262
2009-06-18 04:43 pm UTC (link)
It will cause outrage among some cat owners, but research suggests the pets are not as clever as some humans assumed – or at least they think in a way we have yet to fathom.

At least you got it right on the second try?

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[info]ellensmithee
2009-06-19 08:49 am UTC (link)
A lot of these tests for "animal intelligence" just test how well the animals do what humans tell them to do. Cats end up getting a bad rap because of this. The thing with cats is that they UNDERSTAND what you want them to do a lot, but they're all, "FU, I'm doing THIS, bitch!"

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