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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: These are the 'smartest' dog breeds, according to a canine psychologist ScienceAlert... There’s no easy way to rate dog intelligence. As canine psychologist Stanley Coren wrote back in the 90s, there’s adaptive intelligence (i.e., figuring stuff out), working intelligence (i.e., following orders), and instinctive intelligence (i.e., innate talent) - not to mention spatial intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and more. Indeed, as animal behaviourist Frans de Waal has argued, humans tend to judge animal intelligence in limited and unfair terms and often bungle the experiment. While labs at Yale, Duke, and around the world are studying this question, for now, we do at least have data on one metric: working intelligence. Coren, in his book, The Intelligence of Dogs, featured the results of a lengthy survey of 199 dog obedience judges. The responses, he said, were remarkably consistent; however, he noted that many judges pointed out that there are exceptions in every breed and that a lot comes down to training. Here’s what he found: Top tier - the brightest working dogs, who tend to learn a new command in less than five seconds and obey at least 95 percent of the time. SmartDogs1Dan Kitwood/Getty 1. Border collie 2. Poodle 3. German shepherd 4. Golden retriever 5. Doberman pinscher 6. Shetland sheepdog 7. Labrador retriever 8. Papillon 9. Rottweiler 10. Australian cattle dog Second tier - excellent working dogs, who tend to learn a new command in five to 15 exposures and obey at least 85 percent of the time. SmartDogs2Pmuths1956/WikiMedia Commons 11. Pembroke Welsh corgi 12. Miniature schnauzer 13. English springer spaniel 14. Belgian Tervuren 15. Schipperke, Belgian sheepdog 16. Collie Keeshond 17. German short-haired pointer 18. Flat-coated retriever, English cocker spaniel, Standard schnauzer 19. Brittany spaniel 20. Cocker spaniel, Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever 21. Weimaraner 22. Belgian Malinois, Bernese mountain dog 23. Pomeranian 24. Irish water spaniel 25. Vizsla 26. Cardigan Welsh corgi Third tier - above-average working dogs, who tend to learn a new trick in 15 to 25 repetitions and obey at least 70 percent of the time. 27. Chesapeake Bay retriever, Puli, Yorkshire terrier 28. Giant schnauzer, Portuguese water dog 29. Airedale, Bouv Flandres 30. Border terrier, Briard 31. Welsh springer spaniel 32. Manchester terrier 33. Samoyed 34. Field spaniel, Newfoundland, Australian terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Gordon setter, Bearded collie 35. American Eskimo dog, Cairn terrier, Kerry blue terrier, Irish setter 36. Norwegian elkhound 37. Affenpinscher, Silky terrier, Miniature pinscher, English setter, Pharaoh hound, Clumber spaniel 38. Norwich terrier 39. Dalmatian Fourth tier - average working dogs, who tend to learn a new trick in 25 to 40 repetitions and obey at least 50 percent of the time. SmartDogs3Vadim Petrakov/Shutter Stock 40. Soft-coated wheaten terrier, Bedlington terrier, Smooth-haired fox terrier 41. Curly-coated retriever, Irish wolfhound 42. Kuvasz, Australian shepherd 43. Saluki, Finnish Spitz, Pointer 44. Cavalier King Charles spaniel, German wirehaired pointer, Black-and-tan coonhound, American water spaniel 45. Siberian husky, Bichon Frise, English toy spaniel 46. Tibetan spaniel, English foxhound, Otterhound, American foxhound, Greyhound, Harrier, Parson Russel terrier, Wirehaired pointing griffon 47. West Highland white terrier, Havanese, Scottish deerhound 48. Boxer, Great Dane 49. Dachshund, Staffordshire bull terrier, Shiba Inu 50. Malamute 51. Whippet, Chinese shar-pei, Wirehaired fox terrier 52. Rhodesian ridgeback 53. Ibizan hound, Welsh terrier, Irish terrier 54. Boston terrier, Akita Fifth tier - fair working dogs, who tend to learn a new trick in 40 to 80 repetitions and respond about 40 percent of the time. SmartDogs4Stephanie Keith/Getty 55. Skye terrier 56. Norfolk terrier, Sealyham terrier 57. Pug 58. French bulldog 59. Brussels griffon, Maltese terrier 60. Italian greyhound 61. Chinese crested 62. Dandie Dinmont terrier, Vendeen, Tibetan terrier, Japanese chin, Lakeland terrier 63. Old English sheepdog 64. Great Pyrenees 65. Scottish terrier, Saint Bernard 66. Bull terrier, Petite Basset Griffon, Vendeen 67. Chihuahua 68. Lhasa apso 69. Bullmastiff Sixth tier - the least effective working dogs, who may learn a new trick after more than 100 repetitions and obey around 30 percent of the time. SmartDogs5Capture Light/Shutter Stock 70. Shuh Tzu 71. Basset hound 72. Mastiff, beagle 73. Pekingese 74. Bloodhound 75. Borzoi 76. Chow chow 77. Bulldog 78. Basenji 79. Afghan hound There are, again, exceptions. Coren talks in his book about a trainer who managed to win obedience competitions with multiple Staffordshire bull terriers (#49). There are also, again, other ways of measuring intelligence. Coren tells us about a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (#20) he owned that was in some ways too smart for competitions. "He was so bright and attentive that he read my every motion, head turn, and even the direction that I was looking with my eyes, as a command," he writes by email. "That made him very difficult to compete with in obedience trials, since, for instance, a glance with my eyes in the direction of the high jump might be interpreted by him as a command and that would send him off, taking the jump beautifully of course, but nonetheless disqualifying us from that round of competition." De Waal, in Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? spoke in defence of the Afghan hound (#79), noting that they may not be unintelligent but rather independent-mined, stubborn, and unwilling to follow orders. "Afghans," he wrote, "are perhaps more like cats, which are not beholden to anyone." This article was originally published by Business Insider. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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