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> If you’ve ever owned a dog, you know just how intelligent they actually are (especially larger breeds) yes, some larger breeds rate higher on obedience scale
by VladRussian2 13y ago
> If you’ve ever owned a dog, you know just how intelligent they actually are (especially larger breeds)
yes, some larger breeds rate higher on obedience scale, and we, humans, equate that to the intelligence in animals. There is another bias also is that large breeds are more frequently working breeds, thus a lot of specialized effort is invested into training them, and thus more of the obedience results achieved.
- yardie 13y agoCouldn't obedience be another form of intelligence?
- notimetorelax 13y agoAgree, to do everything right they have to understand when and how to do that.
- sejje 13y agoOr symptom, anyway.
- ianstallings 13y agoBecause dogs simply will not sit down and take a written test. Unruly bastards.
- VladRussian2 13y agoabout anthropocentric design of the tests - reminded me about how they tested chimpanzees for ability to recognize faces (an ability which we consider a necessary trait for a high intelligence), and there wasn't much progress until instead of human faces chimpanzee faces started to be used in the test.