r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '19

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u/zalvernaz Dec 18 '19

Oh God. I thought people were dumb just from reading this sub, but this takes the cake.

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u/wertperch A lot of IT is just not being stupid. Dec 18 '19

The inability to connect cause and effect amazes me. Five-year-olds have that figured out. Heck, I bet there are cats who've got that down.

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u/DasNanda Dec 19 '19

Have you seen the video of the crow learning about the displacement of water? Humans smh

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u/Lord-Benjimus Dec 19 '19

Link?

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u/SwissMidget Dec 19 '19

Ask and you shall receive no need for an upvote. I found the video because I wanted to see it also. Hopefully that's the same video

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u/PhaiLLuRRe Dec 19 '19

What a good boi, not you, the crow.

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u/SwissMidget Dec 19 '19

But... but... I want to be a good boi

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u/rbricks Dec 19 '19

You are a good boy! Thanks for posting the link :)

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u/asailijhijr What's a mouse ball? Dec 19 '19

The video doesn't allow comments so I'm putting my two cents here.

The cards say experiment, but they seem instead to be demonstrations.

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u/bassman1805 Dec 19 '19

If they knew ahead of time what the crow would do, it's a demonstration. If they didn't know how it would behave, it's an experiment.

I'd say it's pretty likely they observed that crows had some kind of understanding of water displacement, and came up with a bunch of tests to see how far they could take it.