Razors Edge ★ Posted May 11, 2021 Share #1 Posted May 11, 2021 ...or @donkpow??? Cats!!! And boxes!!! Real and imaginary!!!!! The only supplies participating owners needed were a printer with black ink, printer paper, scissors, tape, and a ruler, plus sunglasses and a digital camera or smartphone to record their cats' behavior. Smith serially sent participants six randomized daily stimuli to print out and set up on the floor, per instructions, while the cat was not in the room. The stimuli included a simple square, the Kanizsa square illusion, and a Kanizsa control in which the Pac-Man mouths faced outward instead of inward. All dimensions were such that a cat could comfortably sit or stand inside with all its limbs without being able to sprawl. The cats would be permitted into the room, and the owners would don the sunglasses and avoid interacting with their pets so as not to give the beasts any cues. The humans would videotape the cats' behavior with the pairs of stimuli and upload the videos to a shared Dropbox for the project. If the cat sat or stood with all its legs inside the contours of a stimulus within the first five minutes, the owners would stop recording and make note of the chosen shape. If the cat didn't select one of the stimuli in the first five minutes, the trial would end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 11, 2021 Share #2 Posted May 11, 2021 Watch it every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted May 11, 2021 Share #3 Posted May 11, 2021 How come you never have a study for me? I mean Max is so worth providing studies for but I'm feeling left out @Razors Edge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted May 11, 2021 16 minutes ago, Dottles said: How come you never have a study for me? I mean Max is so worth providing studies for but I'm feeling left out @Razors Edge You have a CAT?!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 11, 2021 Share #5 Posted May 11, 2021 41 minutes ago, Dottles said: How come you never have a study for me? I mean Max is so worth providing studies for but I'm feeling left out @Razors Edge That's because there are studies on maxx as well as cats. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted May 11, 2021 Share #6 Posted May 11, 2021 Somewhere, on the internet, you can be sure cats are posting about studies about how humans arrange themselves in their little square work cubicles. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 12, 2021 Share #7 Posted May 12, 2021 I saw the headlines. Scientists are all atwitter drawing conclusions. I read one where a scientist concluded that the cats were only pretending to like boxes so they could get a federal grant or additional stimulus checks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 12, 2021 Share #8 Posted May 12, 2021 Cats consider studies to be their day jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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