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Do long-tailed macaques engage in intuitive statistics?

2018-01-17

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Human infants, apes and capuchins have been found to engage in intuitive statistics, generating predictions from populations to samples based on proportional information. This suggests that statistical reasoning might depend on some core knowledge that is shared with other species. Here, we investigated whether such intuitive statistical reasoning is also present in a species of Old World monkeys, to aid in the re...

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Literature Corpus work: 3daef6e7-61d5-5460-ba86-2d580e7b5f83
DOI: 10.1101/247635

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