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Add some interesting smells and dogs will eat absolutely anything. Used tampons, literal shit, soiled underwear, dierhia, dead bird, freshly killed cat, they owners... It is basically a pig with collar that lives in your house.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, Big Chicken == Shaquille O'Neal in the US. His picture is right there on the official Big Chicken Dot Com website and everything. https://www.bigchicken.com/about
I stand corrected. And he is big, so that’s an apt spokesman.
The best dog treat is always the treat the OTHER dog is eating.
One thing I'm not following is how the side/order bias is being handled. OP measures a IMO very large bias towards left-hand treats, but it is unclear how that is handled (ahem)? Skimming https://github.com/adamwespiser/best-dog-treat/blame/main/an... doesn't help me understand if it is being modeled as a covariate to adjust for the bias or if it was dealt with by construction (eg. by always offering pairs twice, swa…
Below, I filtered for A vs E, the top two choices. Notice how they switch left and right hand each time:
A/E :: A
E/A :: A
A/E :: E
E/A :: E
A/E :: E
Author here: I did a quick experiment with my Greyhound, Bebop, to figure out the treat he prefers best using pair-wise comparison analyzed with the Bradley-Terry model. Same tech as Elo scores in chess, and several other places! Enjoy!