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Everything in the study can be completely explained with a mechanism no more powerful than "dogs tend to follow their owners". Plus a little bit of quantifying
by dmurray 6y ago
Everything in the study can be completely explained with a mechanism no more powerful than "dogs tend to follow their owners". Plus a little bit of quantifying whether they are more loyal at following adult owners/shelter workers/children.
"Move in synchrony" is a very clickbaity way to suggest that there's something magical or insufficiently understood here (like magnetoreception). That seems to be editorializing from the NYT, rather than the authors of the study.
- staticman2 6y agoSynchrony is the term from the scientific study: your beef isn't with the NYT on that term.
- yostrovs 6y agoWhy have the New York Times when you can read the study yourself with all the scientific jargon included? I thought their purpose in covering science is to make it easier to understand for a layman. What is synchrony? Do you think an average person actually knows? I'm educated in the sciences and I'm not sure of what it really means.