Enero 12, 2018

It's not The Gorilla Channel, but there are lots of chimpanzees.

Can you look at a photo of a chimpanzee and pick out its sibling from a photo lineup of 4 other chimpanzees?

I took the test and did worse than random guessing. Only 2 out of 15. Meade got 7 of 15.

36 (na) komento:

Rusty ayon kay ...

You really make this too easy.

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

Species-ists! And from a shithole Planet in a shithole Galaxy, too.

Gahrie ayon kay ...

Can chimps look at pictures of humans and tell when they are related?

Would chimps even care?

Jaq ayon kay ...

Not going to quit the day job then. 4/15 Almost exactly chance.

Riley ayon kay ...

4/15

Meade ayon kay ...

Apparently, my score was relatively high. Doesn't surprise me. Family lore has it I'm 1/32 chimpanzee. Or maybe it's 1/32 Cherokee. Something like that. I'll have to check with my Aunt Liz.

stevew ayon kay ...

4/15. Clearly not adept at this.

-sw

Beth B ayon kay ...

6 of 15

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

The real test might be "How many times will someone press 'Start' without 'it' starting, before they give up?"

So far it's about 8 times for this almost-human subject. 6 right - looked at their nostrils and ears.

SeanF ayon kay ...

I got 7 out of 15, same as Meade.

Howard ayon kay ...

7/15 First half tried to compare noses, ears mouths etc. second half just relied on the overall gestalt no idea if it made a difference

Quaestor ayon kay ...

4 out of 15. Random success. I didn't grok the confidence thing at all.

Bill, Republic of Texas ayon kay ...

Only 1 correct answer. And I really tried too.

Denever ayon kay ...

8/15. I focused on ears a lot.

Ralph L ayon kay ...

Family lore has it I'm 1/32 chimpanzee.

There must be a word for this PC assumption, as it's often on police shows. One race not as adept at distinguishing "people" of another race as that race.

Is chimp promiscuity genetic or cultural?

Ralph L ayon kay ...

Family lore has it I'm 1/32 chimpanzee.

There must be a word for this PC assumption, as it's often on police shows. One race not as adept at distinguishing "people" of another race as that race.

Is chimp promiscuity genetic or cultural?

Rosalyn C. ayon kay ...

5/15 Harder than I thought. Why didn't they include the mothers?

AllenS ayon kay ...

I didn't get any right. I guess they all look alike. Can I say that?

Viva Maria ayon kay ...

“ ... explore how kin-based facial recognition evolved in humans and other primates ... “

4 of 15 - totally random, that is, not studying lower row of pics, just random drift-click with mouse.

11 of 15 - studying only width of nasal bridge and space between eyes (at least two of these were lucky guesses).

Confidence - accepted pre-set baseline of 50% because all chimps started looking like Steven Pinker when I wanted greater "confidence" levels ... (see below).

If the experiment is to tease out kin-based facial recognition as an evolved and adaptive trait rather than as an artifact, then my reproductive fitness for mating with chimps is pretty high, at least when I try!

Next test: look again while spinning 2LiveCrew, "As Nasty As They Wanna Be," track "Me So Horny," and see if the music puts me in the mood, because these chimps without makeup just aren't turn-ons, and passive associations aren't going to cut it with me.

I want action.

Viva Maria ayon kay ...

If the experiment is to tease out kin-based facial recognition as an evolved and adaptive trait rather than as an artifact, then my reproductive fitness for mating with chimps is pretty high, at least when I try!

“Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo ....”

StephenFearby ayon kay ...

You're monkeying around with my valuable time.

Only 5 out of 15. Even though (back in the day), my score on the Millers Analogy Test got me into MENSA!

(As they say, "That and a token gets you a ride on the subway.")

Only joined because I really wanted to date a very smart woman who wasn't into cults or crazy in various other ways.

Showed up at one of MENSA's monthly meetings in Greenwich Village. They were having an event. The women were seated behind a row of card tables offering to read my palm, do a tarot card reading or (if I recall correctly) stare into a crystal ball.

Then some gay guy tried to pick me up. (Obligatory disclaimer: as Jerry Steinfeld put it,
"There's nothing wrong with being gay".)

I never went back.

whitney ayon kay ...

I got 2 out of 15. I'm really bad at that. In my defense I'm pretty bad at it with humans too

Rob ayon kay ...

So many people here taking the test. Monkey see, Monkey do.

5/15 for me, very close to random.

JackOfClubs ayon kay ...

6/15 Focusing on ears, nostrils and eye-ridges. Not sure how to estimate confidence but I generally chose around 60%. Which is exactly the percentage I got wrong, ironically.

@Meade Chimpanzee ... Cherokee... spelling doesn't count on the internet.

Curious George ayon kay ...

0/0 I'm no monkey...wait, what?

Snark ayon kay ...

That was interesting. I got 6 out of 15 and had no confidence in picking a confidence level, so just left it at 50% each time.

CStanley ayon kay ...

6 out of 15.

It was boring because the chimpanzees weren't fighting.

Mister Brickhouse ayon kay ...

5 out of 15
If I say they all looked alike does that make me a deplorable shathole racist?

MaxedOutMama ayon kay ...

I got 8 out of 15, which equates to about random.

On the other hand, I have the rare brain defect that means I cannot recognize people's faces. That's one reason I don't watch a lot of movies/TV. I recognize people by their gaits, voices, hair, etc, but not by their faces.

So did that make me better or worse at this exercise?

MaxedOutMama ayon kay ...

Do you think if I took a genetic test I would turn out to be 10-15% Neanderthal? Maybe I'm not quite human?

This is really shaking me up. I got the best score so far, and I couldn't recognize a picture of my father or my mother!

Achilles ayon kay ...

7.

I tried to just go with my first reaction because I figured my instincts would work better than my (lack of) knowledge.

buwaya ayon kay ...

Four

Ceos ayon kay ...

I got 8

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

8 out of 15! (Thumps chest and hoots.)

Birches ayon kay ...

Three.

J2 ayon kay ...

9. Study the top photo and scan the other 4 quickly to get the same vibe.

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