Who's smarter, humans or non-human animals?
And then there's this:
More like this
Got your attention, right? That's the title of a paper by Penn, Holyoak, and Povinelli in April's Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Well, the full title is "Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds." Here's the abstract:
Those of us who work on non-human systems often grumble about the total disregard human geneticists (that's geneticists who study humans, not humans who are geneticists) have toward non-human research (that's research on non-humans, not non-humans doing research).
Basic Math in Monkeys and College Students:
She's right, it's not real. I think Mythbusters covered the slide one.
Snopes confirms that the second one is fake:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/megawoosh.asp
They duplicated the slide on MythBusters, but were only able to get about half the range. Adam and Jamie sure made it look like fun, though.