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Illness that affects one in six + Failure of intelligence testing with chimpanzees

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The illness that affects one in six of us
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41125009

EXCERPT: At any one time, a sixth of the population in England aged 16 to 64 have a mental health problem, according to statistics body NHS Digital. Whether it is family or friends, neighbours or work colleagues, the chances are we all know someone who is affected. And bearing in mind the figure leaves out less common conditions and is a snapshot in time, you could easily argue it is even more prevalent than that. Indeed many do. With Prime Minister Theresa May expected to announce plans to improve care next week, these 10 charts show the extent of the challenge....

MORE: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41125009



A Failure Of Intelligence Testing, This Time With Chimpanzees
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/09...himpanzees

EXCERPT: [...] Now, psychologists David A. Leavens [...] Kim A. Bard [...] and William D. Hopkins [...] have framed their new Animal Cognition article, "The mismeasure of ape social cognition," around Gould's book. Ape (especially chimpanzee) social intelligence, the authors say, has been routinely mismeasured because apes are tested in comprehensively different circumstances from the children with whom they are compared — and against whose performance theirs is found to be lacking.

Leavens et al. write:

"All direct ape-human comparisons that have reported human superiority in cognitive function have universally failed to match the groups on testing environment, test preparation, sampling protocols, and test procedures."

Confounding factors in these experiments, in other words, are essentially fatal: They render the conclusions unreliable. The testing procedures are so different between apes and children that it becomes impossible to isolate evolutionary history as the explanatory factor when differences in social cognition are uncovered....

MORE: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/09...himpanzees
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The mental health problem is only likely to be exacerbated by more care. Exercise and actual work are necessary for a healthy mind...not sitting around mulling over their navel.


And again, scientists take forever to grasp what most people already knew...that apes are not smarter than children.
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