Sniffing out error in detection dog data

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 22:40 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study in the journal Scientific Reports gets to the bottom of it: Why do dogs that are trained to locate poop sometimes find the wrong kind of poop? It happens anywhere from 4 percent to 45 percent of the time, said Karen DeMatteo, a biologist in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in […]

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