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Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by DiscourseFan »

estebarb wrote: post #17
imiric wrote: post #4

Interesting study. The performance increase on the difficult task as audience size increases is counterintuitive at first, but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences. Yet for some of us the stress of being observed and scrutinized is crippling regardless of the task difficulty. I've bombed so many interviews because of this. :(

Well, some people is know for only do their job when a manager is around. They behave similar after all.

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Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by hehbot »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #21
estebarb wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, some people is know for only do their job when a manager is around. They behave similar after all.

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My good man, this is the internet. Grammar does not matter as long as you are understood.

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by DiscourseFan »

hehbot wrote: post #22
DiscourseFan wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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My good man, this is the internet. Grammar does not matter as long as you are understood.

My correction itself was an interpretation. The phrase was not fully intelligible to me even.

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by yapyap »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #23
hehbot wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My good man, this is the internet. Grammar does not matter as long as you are understood.

My correction itself was an interpretation. The phrase was not fully intelligible to me even.

I understood it (I think), basically they were saying some people only do their job when their manager is around hence the monkeys and people aren’t that different after all.

Hope this helps

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by yapyap »

imiric wrote: post #4

Interesting study. The performance increase on the difficult task as audience size increases is counterintuitive at first, but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences. Yet for some of us the stress of being observed and scrutinized is crippling regardless of the task difficulty. I've bombed so many interviews because of this. :(

> but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences.

yeah but maybe these people are just as good when they aren’t in front of huge audiences..

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by WalterBright »

imiric wrote: post #4

Interesting study. The performance increase on the difficult task as audience size increases is counterintuitive at first, but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences. Yet for some of us the stress of being observed and scrutinized is crippling regardless of the task difficulty. I've bombed so many interviews because of this. :(

The adrenaline from being in front of an audience helps a lot.

But when I was a beginner at it, the stress was indeed crippling.

The cure for that kind of stress is to keep doing it, the stress will go away. Like if your throat freezes up when stepping behind the podium, just take every opportunity you can to public speak.

P.S. I don't get any adrenaline from a zoom presentation. As a result, they aren't near as good as the live ones.

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by DiscourseFan »

yapyap wrote: post #24
DiscourseFan wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My correction itself was an interpretation. The phrase was not fully intelligible to me even.

I understood it (I think), basically they were saying some people only do their job when their manager is around hence the monkeys and people aren’t that different after all. Hope this helps

Its the specificity that's important. The general vibe is easy to interpret for commonly understood phrases, but often language complexity allows for subtle nuances that may be difficult to interpret if they are not properly used.

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by m463 »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #23
hehbot wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My good man, this is the internet. Grammar does not matter as long as you are understood.

My correction itself was an interpretation. The phrase was not fully intelligible to me even.

I would have thought:

> Well, some people are known for only doing their job when a manager is around. They behave similarly after all [to the monkeys].

Also, some days I wish there was a way to fix typos in restaurant menus.

Although I would still be flummoxed by "Pork Floss, Chinese Sausage Scorched Rice" (cơm cháy chà bông lạp xưởng)

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

Loughla wrote: post #18
CoastalCoder wrote: post #13

Checks out with what I read in "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel." Man, I read that book to my kids so many times I can probably still recite it in it's entirety. I miss having little kids.

Everyone tells you it goes fast but you really can't prepare for the whiplash you get when 20 years have slid by. To anyone with little kids; no amount of money is worth the time you have with them. Literally none. You can never get that time back, and every experience for them is important. Subsequently, I think I understand why parents are almost always better grandparents. They get it.

Loughla is spitting truth here.

Those of you in the rat race, when you get home after a hard day and an hour of sitting in traffic, please, just sit in your car for a minute or two. Shed all of that. Pick a tree in your front yard and name it your worry tree. Before you go in, leave your stress/worries/frustrations with it. It won't stay gone but the intention will make it so those first five minutes when you walk into the door you can be present and enjoy your kids, instead of just bringing in a ball of intensity they won't understand.

Those memories of 'mommy's home' or 'daddy's home' shouts of joy when you go inside are pure gold for the rest of your life.

Re: Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

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Post by taneq »

Very interesting result! It does kind of baffle me, though, when people describe things as “uniquely human” when even a passing familiarity with basically any mammal (and often other ‘simpler’ creatures) reveals that they also do these things.
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