The animal training book Don’t Shoot the Dog states that reinforcement-oriented clicker training is substantially faster and more persistent than aversion-based alternatives. Even for cases where you’re training an animal not to do something, the author recommends finding a way to make use of reinforcement-based training somehow… e.g. train a behavior incompatible with the one you want to discourage. “[Punishment is] everybody’s favorite [method for getting rid of undesired behaviors], in spite of the fact that it almost never really works.”
The animal training book Don’t Shoot the Dog states that reinforcement-oriented clicker training is substantially faster and more persistent than aversion-based alternatives.
Oh, of course. Positive reinforcement in general is stronger, which I would have noticed if I hadn’t been primed by reading about anxiety recently, which suggests I should institute some sort of debiasing exercise when I recognize the risk of selection bias rather than just announcing it.
The animal training book Don’t Shoot the Dog states that reinforcement-oriented clicker training is substantially faster and more persistent than aversion-based alternatives. Even for cases where you’re training an animal not to do something, the author recommends finding a way to make use of reinforcement-based training somehow… e.g. train a behavior incompatible with the one you want to discourage. “[Punishment is] everybody’s favorite [method for getting rid of undesired behaviors], in spite of the fact that it almost never really works.”
Oh, of course. Positive reinforcement in general is stronger, which I would have noticed if I hadn’t been primed by reading about anxiety recently, which suggests I should institute some sort of debiasing exercise when I recognize the risk of selection bias rather than just announcing it.