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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/chimp-game-theory-humans_n_5455319.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cresponsive-test1%7Cdl13%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D485364

Call it Crazy says

Strategist says

Chimps beat humans every time in certain strategic thinking.

I'm sure they could beat many of the posters here at Patnet..

Could be the only thing everyone here agrees on.

hmm, instead of measuring against some theoretical Nash equilibrium expectation, why didn't they pit a chimp against a human in that game? I can only presume they tried but did not get the same sensationalistic result that they were looking for.

Our results may be reminiscent
of the phenomenon known
as ‘eidetic imagery’ found by
Jaensch [9,10]. Eidetic imagery
has been defined as the memory
capability to retain an accurate,
detailed image of a complex
scene or pattern. It is known to
be present in a relatively high
percentage of normal children,
and then the ability declines with
age. Our present study shows
that young chimpanzees can
quickly grasp many numerals
at a glance, with no decline
in performance as the hold
duration is varied. Moreover,
the young ones showed better
performance than adults in
the memory task. Our study
shows that young chimpanzees
have an extraordinary working
memory capability for numerical
recollection better than that
of human adults. The results fit
well with what we know
about the eidetic imagery in
humans.