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www.news.com.au/technology/science/anim ... 807a79bfc3

So heres one for the books .. allegedly .. and I say allegedly because Im not convinced the answers in this .. umm 🙄 test are accurate .. though they claim chimpanzees have a higher success rate than most humans .. I flunked it but very interested in thoughts 😏😎[/url]
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Meh. A chimp had a higher success rate by randomly selecting answers.

Not really indicative of anything.

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So you didnt score so well Av 😏😎
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https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overvie ... ct-4160740

Heres one that for the cards .. the Dunning Kruger effect ..
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities.
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Skyweir wrote::LOLS:

So you didnt score so well Av 😏😎
Haha, I was too lazy to do it and find the answers. If they'd automated it I would have tried. :D

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:haha: :haha:

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Y'all have been smart-ish and funny-ish about the test....but...

The test is...
I don't even know what to call it...
I know a fair number of words, but I'm not sure there IS a word for something so absurd it roughly means:
[[[[NOUN or ADJECTIVE]]]]: a random monkey typist that creates Hamlet and looks up and says "this shit is Sartre written by a Kafka that rolls some dice that land so they LOOK like Jesus riding a dinosaur, thus the world is Enlightened....but I'm a MONKEY and I can't READ."
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There's your Dunning-Kruger effect fer ya.
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hahahahahahahaha .. yes wf :haha: definitely

But to be honest V yes I was surprised by the answers too.

So a set up 🤷‍♀️ .. wish there was a fold arms emoji :lol:
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Interesting article about some humans more adept at diving:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/sea-n ... ocid=ientp
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I saw a documentary on them. Amazing. They just kinda walked on the bottom, way down.
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Until I read the article I never thought 13 minutes was possible - it is amazing stuff.
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Now THIS could be cool, and it seems full of amazing potential to me.
REALLY PEOPLE CHECK THIS OUT!!! STARTS TOMORROW!!! Tell your friends and neighbors, spread it around other threads if you like.
First link a story about it, second link where to go to try to participate:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... r-genomes/

https://www.joinallofus.org/en/about
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Oh thats a great opportunity for US citizens to contribute in a substantive way to scientific outcomes :biggrin:
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My DNA is already all over the net. What's one more place?
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:LOLS: indeed
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Volunteer my DNA and/or other biological samples? No, thank you. If they want them they can make me a cash offer and I might consider selling that information to them.

Don't forget: once genetic information starts becoming more normalized and mainstream, it won't be long before health insurance providers begin raising rates based on genetic markers or for some employers to insist upon a sequencing as part of the employment process.
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From participating in one research project 🤔
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Hashi Lebwohl wrote:Volunteer my DNA and/or other biological samples? No, thank you. If they want them they can make me a cash offer and I might consider selling that information to them.

Don't forget: once genetic information starts becoming more normalized and mainstream, it won't be long before health insurance providers begin raising rates based on genetic markers or for some employers to insist upon a sequencing as part of the employment process.

On the first....there actually have been propositions/explorations of ideas like that...having all the people basically stealing our info and using it for free have to make micro-payments to the people whose data it is. No good/effective ones yet---that would be a hella-complicated thing to work, and the current user/thieves HATE it---but the ideas are out there in "hmmmm....I wonder...." form.

On the second---OR, with enough data and the current and near-future state of knowledge and AI, we could tell all the insurance companies and pharma corps, and for-profit rip-off hospitals, and ambulances and ambulance chasers to go straight to the hell they so richly deserve, because everyone could be healthy easily and for practically zero cost.
[[and employer invasions should have been stopped a long time ago---as long as I'm not drunk/high on the job, and doing my job, it's none of their damn business what my body is like, or what I do with it or put into it]].

Though I suspect YOUR thing will probably happen first----my thing is where we could/should end up.
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:LOLS:

Username threw me. :D

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