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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 23:23:01 JST Bread up, Bro
   "lumps of meat in a piranha tank" is a pretty good visual.
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     Gundog (gundog@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:19 JST Gundog

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     @WandererUber @Victor_Emmanuel @sickburnbro Related.
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:19 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     @Gundog @Victor_Emmanuel @sickburnbro yep thanks
     there was an actual study floating around on twitter and here, not too sure if that's recent or just recycled. I basically brought this up because psychology keeps finding out why all their studies have been crap and then they never mention it again.
     There was a dude who did this with the rat labyrinth experiments, he tested sound dampening, residual smell, etc. Really elaborate and detailed, got a lot of praise for the study, and then everyone just went back to doing it the easy way because a properly controlled labyrinth was too much work.
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     Victor_Emmanuel (victor_emmanuel@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:20 JST Victor_Emmanuel

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     @sickburnbro You can choose to not use your freewill. I'd be interested in a study that examines the people who aren't trash bags in a tornado
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:20 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     @Victor_Emmanuel @sickburnbro This should be related to the "high testosterone reduces prosocial behavior" study that came out recently. Basically most soy NPC people will just go along with whatever they think is expected of them
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:31 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     @Victor_Emmanuel @Gundog @sickburnbro https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-023-01570-y
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     Victor_Emmanuel (victor_emmanuel@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:31 JST Victor_Emmanuel

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     @WandererUber @Gundog @sickburnbro Thanks, but I meant the rats
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:31 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     @Victor_Emmanuel @Gundog @sickburnbro Oh, sorry.
     
     That was Quin Fisher Curtis, under John. F Shepard, Michigan University, 1920s and 1930s.
     You can read this - "The Analysis of Maze Learning" (published in Principles of Psychology) by another guy
     https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/animal/maze/1935-maier-principlesofanimalpsychology-ch17-theanalysisofmazelearning.pdf
     
     Richard Feynman retells this in a book of his and the results are basically that rats can use clues like the sound of the floorboards to find their position in the maze. Researchers eliminated this by covering the floor with sand, but this hasn't been widely adopted in maze design since then.
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     Victor_Emmanuel (victor_emmanuel@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:18:32 JST Victor_Emmanuel

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     @WandererUber @Gundog @sickburnbro What were the results of the study?