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Things like speaking for Koko or "correcting" for her when it seemed like Koko was signing something nonsensical. Uhm, like you do with humans? OK. She would
by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Things like speaking for Koko or "correcting" for her when it seemed like Koko was signing something nonsensical.
Uhm, like you do with humans? OK.
She would also ask Koko leading questions to get desired responses for cameras which doesn't demonstrate intelligence.
Like they do in the mainstream news with any other human who is being interviewed? OK.
For example, Koko had an apparent fascination with nipples.
And?
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAll those things invalidate any attempt to prove Koko had language. Which seems obvious from context.
- sikli15 6y agoNo. As if she was doing the sign language equivalent of putting words in someone's mouth. It's not like viewers would know the difference. But the other caretakers did and they've spoken out about it. There's no doubt Koko probably understood some things, but not to the complexity that Patterson tried to portray it. And the thing I was getting at with the nipples was Koko was apparently asking to see people's nipples all the time but in demonstrations Patterson would always play it off like Koko was saying something completely different and more intelligent than it actually was.