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"Man v. Beast"

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Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

I give up... as "handcrafted" is to what?

And at what time of life do these four things show up? That is, when do we cease to be mere animals in our capacity to think? (Can we eat babies before that point?)

Inquiring fathers of two-month-olds want to know...

2/20/08, 10:19 PM

Anonymous DYork said...

"Bicameral is to legislation as handcrafted is to ..."

Ceramic birds? Wicker baskets? Useless junk made by chunky women in a church basement?

2/20/08, 11:21 PM

Anonymous robert said...

I think the bicameral/handcrafted parallel was a joke. It made my brain hurt, too, though.

2/20/08, 11:43 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

... to "manufacturing" ? :P

2/21/08, 1:47 AM

Anonymous wilberforce said...

what about the new caledonian crow? http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kgroup/tools/introduction.shtml

you can watch a video of it using a stick to retrieve another stick, which it in turn uses to retrieve a morsel of food (as far as i understand, this is the only case of so-called 'meta-tool', or tool on tool, use seen in animals other than humans). it ain't building ziggurats, but it's still pretty impressive for a bird.

2/21/08, 8:33 AM

Blogger Johnson said...

But there are probably millions of humans who lack the ability to apply old solutions to new problems.

And have you checked out the videos of brilliant birds? here or here ?

Check this out.

Anyway, like I've always been saying: HBD proves that human intelligence in on a spectrum, just like all animal intelligence. As a species, we get less and less unique as we learn more about animals and ourselves.

HBD - animal rights= prescription for genocide

2/21/08, 9:30 AM

Anonymous Gore Me Again said...

Oh, Steve, they got rid of SAT analogies precisely because analogical thinking is a key quality of human intelligence. The last thing modern colleges want is an objective test of intelligence to contradict their "diversity" cant.

2/21/08, 9:47 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This reminds of how stupid it was for the SAT to drop the often-criticized analogy questions: "Bicameral is to legislation as hand-crafting is to ..." or whatever.

The SAT Analogy Section was removed because it was biased by "socio-economic" factors (e.g. in favor of Whites and Asians).

The analogies required not only raw intelligence to derive the analogy itself, but also basic command of vocabulary to divine shades of meaning.

The SAT organization itself claims that they still measure analogy skills in the short and long reading passages. Based upon the old SAT reading comprehension sections, I don't know how they do this without reintroducing the same problem with the vocabularies purportedly limited by lower SES (smart Asian immigrants I knew did fine even if English was a 2nd language).

2/21/08, 9:49 AM

Blogger michael farris said...

"Bicameral is to legislation as handcrafted is to ..."

I was going to say 'production' but anonymous beat me to it.

2/21/08, 10:14 AM

Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...

Bicameral is to legislation as {handcrafted is to hands} inverted.

2/21/08, 12:02 PM

Blogger Michael said...

I don't think *any* of those four ways human intelligence beats animal intelligence are in my range. From what other commenters are saying here, it sounds like some birds may be a little swifter than I am too.

2/21/08, 1:46 PM

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