10

10 log in or sign up to start earning Butterfly Credits today!
learn more »
earn credits for web search

causes & news

news network

socially conscious news and video shared and rated by the community

Ants More Rational Than Humans?

Science & Tech (tags: science, research, study, ants, humans, rationality, irrational, decision making, interesting )

Dee
- 145 days ago - sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (July 25, 2009) -- In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more---

add comment

send green star



Comments

Dee C. (528)

Saturday July 25, 2009, 5:08 am
"This is not the case of humans being "stupider" than ants. Humans and animals simply often make irrational choices when faced with very challenging decisions, note the study's architects Stephen Pratt and Susan Edwards.

"This paradoxical outcome is based on apparent constraint: most individual ants know of only a single option, and the colony's collective choice self-organizes from interactions among many poorly-informed ants," says Pratt, an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences in ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences."

Read more at site..

send green star |