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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

#51

> The significance of witnesses to humans under various contexts could be explained by the importance of reputation management to our species. It could also be explained as the researches accidentally recreating "Clever Hans." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

If the test was what the images in the paper suggest then chimps are way better at it than humans. So there's no way to borrow intelligence from the audience.

https://youtu.be/zsXP8qeFF6A?si=GX0ldoWywMaCzEom

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> Grammar does not matter most people who learn/are learning a foreign language appreciate getting corrections and suggested improvements. People willing to take the time and analyze and share are a valuable resource.

Not native speaker here. Corrections are soetimes helpful, but I prefer shorter corrections. Something like:

> "know": you should use "known" (adjetive) instead of "know" (verb).

And add more details in case the author or someone else ask for clarifications.

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

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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. :(

> 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. :(

I feel your pain.

I had a fourth-round interview recently where I was expected to write code while narrating my thoughts to two people sitting either side of me - and while perched on a wobbly office stool at a standing desk. Couldn't think. Totally bombed it.

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

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> Grammar does not matter most people who learn/are learning a foreign language appreciate getting corrections and suggested improvements. People willing to take the time and analyze and share are a valuable resource.

no, we don’t appreciate fixing small typos becoming the main point of discussion in a technical forum. It was completely understandable and sounded like someone not agreeing with the content but not capable of refuting it

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

#57

> The significance of witnesses to humans under various contexts could be explained by the importance of reputation management to our species. It could also be explained as the researches accidentally recreating "Clever Hans." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

> After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer. Sounds like machine learning

Sounds like a failure mode in machine learning.

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

#59
So every time someone fails doing a demo it is proof that they are great at the task and or performing demos, because if they found it hard thier performance would have improved and they would have smashed it, so they must have found i easy.

I will be adding this to my list of demo failure excuses.

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

#60

> The significance of witnesses to humans under various contexts could be explained by the importance of reputation management to our species. It could also be explained as the researches accidentally recreating "Clever Hans." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

Erudition signalling may be in full circle.
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