Spend some time with monkeys or apes and you will no longer be surprised by the "insights" in this article. Pieces like this are written periodically but they s

Spend some time with monkeys or apes and you will no longer be surprised by the "insights" in this article. Pieces like this are written periodically but they say nothing new, original or intriguing. Diamonds are a status symbol in many cultures much like a tree full of fruit is a status symbol if you are a gibbon. What is really interesting in this type of discussion is the way people build up massive internal models to describe and explain concepts that really are very simple and repetitive in nature. It highlights the way many of us are driven and controlled by our tendency to seek a narrative in data and to see complex patterns in place of a simpler pattern.