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I found one of the comments interesting: that the monkey/ladder experiment could be a myth.
by jl6 14y ago
I found one of the comments interesting: that the monkey/ladder experiment could be a myth.
- dsego 14y agoIt's probably just a thought experiment, a nice allegory. http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-exp...
- maxerickson 14y agoIt's fun to try to apply it recursively. That is, if I take a lesson from a story about an experiment that never happened, I'm acting like the hapless chimpanzees that merely learn to fear the ladder. So I must choose to not model other people as cartoon chimpanzees.
- gweinberg 14y agoNot "could be". It's a total fantasy. Real world chimps wouldn't even start beating up other chimps for touching the ladder before you start replacing chimps.