I still appreciate this post for getting me to think about the question “how much language can dogs learn?”. I also still find the evidence pretty sus, and mostly tantalizing in the form of “man I wish there were more/better experiments like this.”
BUT, what feels (probably?) less sus to me is JenniferRM’s comment about the dog Chaser, who learned explicit nouns and verbs. This is more believable to me, and seems to have had more of a scientific setup. (Ideally I’d like to spend this review-time spot-checking that the paper seems reasonable, alas, in the grand scheme of thing this post doesn’t seem quite worth my time at the moment. But I’d appreciate if someone else dug into it more)
This is only enough to get me to give the post a vote of 1. I appreciate it for being one of the most out-of-left-field things I didn’t expect to bump into on LW, but it’s not serious progress on it’s own.
I still appreciate this post for getting me to think about the question “how much language can dogs learn?”. I also still find the evidence pretty sus, and mostly tantalizing in the form of “man I wish there were more/better experiments like this.”
BUT, what feels (probably?) less sus to me is JenniferRM’s comment about the dog Chaser, who learned explicit nouns and verbs. This is more believable to me, and seems to have had more of a scientific setup. (Ideally I’d like to spend this review-time spot-checking that the paper seems reasonable, alas, in the grand scheme of thing this post doesn’t seem quite worth my time at the moment. But I’d appreciate if someone else dug into it more)
This is only enough to get me to give the post a vote of 1. I appreciate it for being one of the most out-of-left-field things I didn’t expect to bump into on LW, but it’s not serious progress on it’s own.