How exactly do scientists measure this intelligence across different species? What methods, tests, or observations do researchers use to assess the cognitive abilities of animals? And especially I am curious about how do they range animals according to their IQ level? How can one compare raccoons (with their physical ability to do something using their fingers) and, for example, pigs?
In: Planetary Science
I read about one attempt to handle the “many types of intelligence” problem that I thought was interesting:
How many lines of code would it take to program a computer to do the most complicated problem [insert animal] can solve?
Obviously still lots of problems, but I thought it was a cool way to think about comparing types of intelligence.
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