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[bubbagene]

Goes to pet shop,buys a rat ,takes it to AC to play VP?

[Frank Kneeland]

Goes to pet shop,buys a rat ,takes it to AC to play VP?OK I needed that laugh. Thank you!

[backsider]

Whoops meant to post this in this thread...Perhaps this is a non sequitur
perhaps it is not. In the book I read recently "The Drunkards Walk" it
referenced an interesting study done into human pattern recognition.
Scientists set two buttons to give the subjects a reward if they pushed
the correct button. Only one button at a time was enabled to give the
reward, and they alternated which button was correct randomly with the
left button being correct 75% of the time and the right button getting
the remaining 25%. Rats scored an average of 70% correct pushes, as they quickly learned that the left button was right more often.ALL
the Human test subjects tried to guess at the non-existent pattern, and
NONE of them merely opted for always pushing the left button. The BEST
any of the human test subjects did was around 55% correct. Similar tests
have been conducted and in all cases rats and other non-primates like
pigeons score better than humans. The problem would seem to be that
humans perceive their pattern recognition as an "all the time asset" and
can't switch it off when it's a deficit...like when there is no
pattern.Oh, in the primary test they did not tell the
participants that the buttons alternated randomly. In a later re-test
they did, but most of the subjects still refused to believe the
scientists and continued to look for patterns even when they had been
told there were none. Some of the subjects requested to be allowed to
continue doing the test, because they felt they were close to figuring
out the pattern. These subjects left convinced the scientists were
wrong, and that there really was a pattern, even though their best
scores had been beaten by the weakest rats.If we have a hammer all problems become nails.In
another study scientists simply wanted to see if people could recognise
series of random coin tosses. The error rate was about 80%. 78% of the
non-random series were identified as random, and 82% of the truly random
series were thought to be man made.People almost perfectly perceive random events to be non-random and visa versa.~FK

 

[faygo]

[QUOTE=bubbagene]Goes to pet shop,buys a rat ,takes it to AC to play VP?OK I needed that laugh. Thank you![/QUOTE]
 Now I know why they were called the "RAT PACK"