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Was the Experiment with Five Monkeys, Ladder, Banana and Water Spray Conducted? (skeptics.stackexchange.com)
3 points by belter on Oct 7, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


actually that experiment has been running continuously at our workplace for at least 40+ years

what they don't tell you is that a large percentage of the monkeys eventually read about the experiment and figure out it's just a trick and now know very well there's no reason not to be eating those bananas. but it changes nothing because there's a majority of other monkeys who don't know all this and won't listen and prefer blindly following.


sync;sync;shutdown now -h

It doesn't matter whether this was ever done, it's a useful analogy for real life stuff. Just like the bike shed story.




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