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Title: Chimps choose more rationally than humans
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Journal Science-UPI
URL Source: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Scienc ... e_rationally_than_humans/8872/
Published: Oct 9, 2007
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2007-10-09 12:58:34 by Horse
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German researchers have demonstrated chimpanzees make choices that protect their self-interest more consistently than do humans. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig studied the chimp's choices by using an economic game with two players. In the game, a human or chimpanzee who receives something of value can offer to share it with another. If the proposed share is rejected, neither player gets anything. Humans typically make offers close to 50 percent of the reward. They also reject as unfair offers of significantly less than half of the reward, even though this choice means they get nothing. The study, however, showed chimpanzees reliably made offers of substantially less than 50 percent, and accepted offers of any size, no matter how small. The researchers concluded chimpanzees do not show a willingness to make fair offers and reject unfair ones. In this way, they protect their self interest and are unwilling to pay a cost to punish someone they perceive as unfair. The study appeared in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Science.
Poster Comment: Now you know where those ignorant voters are comimg from.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
I read the title and thought they (UPI) were trying to say our lord and emperor was more rational than the average peasant..... Whew! I've calmed down now ;)
A "conservative" is a draft animal that claims we must wear our yokes more or less as they're placed on us. A "liberal" is a draft animal that claims we have a right to shift the yokes from time to time. "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --- William Casey, Director CIA (Quote from internal staff meeting notes 1981)
An exception to confirm the rule: Dumber people than me have done it.
Chimps choose more rationally than humans
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