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Gunnar Miller's avatar

The mental image of baboons *volunteering* for an academic study at a sign-up booth in the jungle, staffed by a bespectacled baboon in a lab coat, clipboard in hand, gave me a chuckle. One baboon in line whispers, "I heard the capuchins tried this, and now they're obsessed with data visualization." Fast forward to the experiment, where the baboons are diligently analyzing scatterplots on the screen. One baboon sighs to another: "They told us there’d be snacks. I didn’t sign up for this level of dot density.” Another baboon chimes in, “What’s the tenure track like for a research assistant position?”

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FrankFrank's avatar

Who calculated the correlation coefficient? The human group or the baboons?

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