Reports on ape cognitive superiority are contested and hard to replicate.

Evidence

The humans would no doubt counter by complaining that although the chimpanzees were rewarded with snacks for each correct sequence, the students received no snacks (and may thus have been lacking a key glucose boost). The humans would also argue that Ayumu is clearly a ringer who figured out some secret way of winning that none of his fellow chimps have replicated. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 1086

Categorization

• SHARE: A funny pushback on the celebrated Ayumu chimp working-memory story — share with anyone who knows the Sanaa chimp memorization videos.
• XREF: connects to: Social learning is toddlers’ only cognitive edge over great apes. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 78; Children, unlike chimps, overimitate even when causality is transparent — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 362; Cognitive-science bias insights demand granular institutional examination to be useful — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1377

Broader Connections

• Cognitive-science bias insights demand granular institutional examination to be useful #complicates (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1377