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Casually dropped this tidbit (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by ickplant to c/[email protected]

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You can read about how researchers discovered that here.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

And they weren't just going for the empty picture because it was new and interesting: Another group of bees trained to always choose the larger number tended to pick the nonzero image in this test.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

It's the same method but reversed rewards so it could still be that they were attracted because more shapes = more black. Was the ratio of color difference consistent each time or were the shapes random sizes?

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 13 points 2 months ago

I mean that's just the opposite conditioning. The bees that chose the pictures with more spots were rewarded for choosing the pictures with more spots. So they'd be conditioned to go for the picture with more spots.