Say the word 'statistician' and most people might think of an intelligent but reclusive person, probably working in a darkened room and almost certainly wearing glasses. But a new study shows that a monkey in front of a monitor can make a reasonably good statistician too. [emphasis added]
Dang, now I have to be on the lookout for monkeys after my job. Didn't see that one coming.
[photos by snelvis]
I think the advantages of being properly toilet trained and more or less accepting of sharing our toys, er, tools of the trade, may start appearing on CVs...
ReplyDeleteRelevant Skills: Grooming, Tree climbing, Poop flinging, Generalized linear models. ;->
ReplyDeletePeople in general are becoming more like apes as time goes on all you have to do is watch the news or a reality tv show!
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