Our Anthropomorphic Bias
Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 21:20
in Psychology & Sociology
There was a recent article discussing the observation of death and the chimpanzees attitude towards it.Of course, this gave rise to the usual round of questions and points regarding human interpretations of these actions and raised the question of anthropomorphism. Yet, this was precisely one of the more absurd elements that was involved in these discussions.Even the point of raising the question of testable hypothesis, is a false alarm when it comes to interpretation of animal behaviors.The following quote illustrates the problem precisely: read more