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by ahartmetz
462 days ago
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I'm not sure how many pigs have had their intelligence evaluated. Most outliers probably go unnoticed. The experimental evidence seems to indicate that pigs are probably smarter than dogs. People think that dogs are special because they have relationships with them. But that doesn't really make dogs special except as far as the relationship is concerned. |
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The point is when intelligence of animals is evaluated like this, it's evaluated in very limited scopes, e.g. arithmetic abilities, mental time travel capabilities, abstract thinking capabilities, etc.
To generalize the results from one limited scope test to intelligence in general is flawed and wrong.
> The experimental evidence seems to indicate that pigs are probably smarter than dogs.
It indicates nothing of the sort.