Monday, December 03, 2007

It Figures

Young chimp beats college students - Yahoo! News: "NEW YORK - Never mind that TV show that asks if you're smarter than a fifth-grader. Is your memory better than a young chimp's?

Maybe not.

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

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"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.

--No one except anyone who's awaret that a 5yo chimp is pretty comparable to a 5yo human, and I suspect that 5yo humans would beat college students as well. Because young apes have a lot less to remember and a lot less to associate new memory with.

Anonymous said...

Such as the memory of how to type "aware"...

Cap'n Bob said...
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Cap'n Bob said...

I'll bet they pitted them against Kellie Pickler.

Anonymous said...

Turns out they are now planning to pit 5yo humans v. 5yo chimps.