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Are Chimps Smarter than Humans?

According to The text book “Game theory is concerned with situations in which decision-makers interact with one another, and in which the happiness of each participant with the outcome depends not just on his or her own decisions but on the decisions made by everyone.” This means that a game consists of  multiple people who have to make choices based solely upon the probability that the other players will choose the most beneficial outcome for themselves. Defined this idea was tested to judge the intellect of primates and in comparison with humans the primates seemed to be more intelligent than humans.

The Game played was a matching game where the payout was  based upon both human and monkey either matching or not matching tiles. If the tiles matched the first player would win and if the tiles did not the second player would win( depending on situation either monkey or human). The game had been equated to more conceptual games like chess or poker, due to it’s use of strategy to win the game. In most of the games and after many games of research the data suggested that the chimps were better at the game than then humans. This showed a better memory to choice patterns than humans along with following choice patterns better than humans.

Game theory is the main topic covered in class that relates to this article. The Game payoff chart was interesting to look at and see how large of a memory scale the chimps had to know what to pick to generally win the games more. In the link below there is a link to the original data. The chimps were not only capable to asses the situation as it was originally but as the games went on the games were slightly altered and the chimps had still adjusted to the change better than the humans. This article was really interesting seeing that we as a species still have a lot to learn about how our memories and logic are set up, and how we can use game theory to progress.

http://www.ibtimes.com/chimpanzee-intelligence-mans-closest-relative-outwits-humans-game-theory-test-1675682

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