my chimp is smarter than your honor studentFollow

Because the chimps could not see inside, they could not tell that the extra steps were unnecessary. As a result, when the chimps were given the box, two-thirds faithfully imitated the scientists to retrieve the food.

The team then used a box with transparent walls and found a strikingly different result. Those chimps could see that the scientists were wasting their time sliding the bolt and tapping the top. None followed suit. They all went straight for the door.

The researchers turned to humans. They showed the transparent box to 16 children from a Scottish nursery school. After putting a sticker in the box, they showed the children how to retrieve it. They included the unnecessary bolt pulling and box tapping.

The scientists placed the sticker back in the box and left the room, telling the children that they could do whatever they thought necessary to retrieve it.

The children could see just as easily as the chimps that it was pointless to slide open the bolt or tap on top of the box. Yet 80 percent did so anyway. "It seemed so spectacular to me," Mr. Lyons said. "It suggested something remarkable was going on."

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The story goes on to suggest that children perform the extra steps because they are just imitating the adults and they have a desire to play along and do what the are told. Interesting story.

I guess technically water expands when it freezes so if anything I was making the tea stronger because I was adding less water but with the few cubes of ice I was adding it didn't matter.

Austensibly to allow for a layer of air in between water and ice so that the water can still oxygenate and fish don't die.

I found it baffling how someone could not know this, but then I asked my wife and sister the question, and they both got it wrong.)

This I did not know, although it makes complete sence. Sometimes coming to this place can be a learning experience.

It's awsome how things sort of work out like that when observing natrue.