While perhaps not directly pertinent to the goals of collecting these data points, I wonder if it’s accurate to say the rat example is really a case of “completely irrelevant” factors. Seems to me the lesson from the rat experiment is rats prefer navigating via sounds over images. Taking away their ability to hear where they are is not training them to rely on vision but forcing them to do so.
It’s hard to say because no one has tracked down if the rat story happened; although we did find some instances which looked real of very similar stories.
Maybe, and this is getting to be a divergence off on a tangent. I wonder, for the rat experiment, if the sounds were actually rather relevant and not something that should have been just excluded.
I think I see what you mean. Discovering rats can navigate mazes via sounds is a new interesting thing. You could go on to study more about how that works and how it interacts with other things rats do. Though if you just wanted to look at a some aspect of how rats learn, you’d have to account for the fact that in your experiment their hearing could circumvent some aspect of your design.
While perhaps not directly pertinent to the goals of collecting these data points, I wonder if it’s accurate to say the rat example is really a case of “completely irrelevant” factors. Seems to me the lesson from the rat experiment is rats prefer navigating via sounds over images. Taking away their ability to hear where they are is not training them to rely on vision but forcing them to do so.
It’s hard to say because no one has tracked down if the rat story happened; although we did find some instances which looked real of very similar stories.
Seemingly irrelevant
Maybe, and this is getting to be a divergence off on a tangent. I wonder, for the rat experiment, if the sounds were actually rather relevant and not something that should have been just excluded.
I think I see what you mean. Discovering rats can navigate mazes via sounds is a new interesting thing. You could go on to study more about how that works and how it interacts with other things rats do. Though if you just wanted to look at a some aspect of how rats learn, you’d have to account for the fact that in your experiment their hearing could circumvent some aspect of your design.