Monkeys in sentence

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It was useless to the monkeys at first before they realized what they could do with it.

But very quickly, the monkeys realized that they could actually hand these tokens over to different humans in the lab for some food.

And so you see one of our monkeys, Mayday, up here doing this.

It turns out not just Mayday, all of our monkeys get good at trading tokens with human salesman.

So the monkeys get really good at this.

Is this a market at all, or did we just do a weird psychologist's trick by getting monkeys to do something, looking smart, but not really being smart.

And so we said, well, what would the monkeys spontaneously do if this was really their currency, if they were really using it like money?

Do the monkeys do anything like this?

The way this works is that our monkeys normally live in a kind of big zoo social enclosure.

Monkeys are shorter, so it's a little short.

So not just Honey, most of the monkeys went with guys who had more.

Most of the monkeys went with guys who had better food.

When we introduced sales, we saw the monkeys paid attention to that.

The more surprising thing was that when we collaborated with economists to actually look at the monkeys' data using economic tools, they basically matched, not just qualitatively, but quantitatively with what we saw humans doing in a real market.

So much so that, if you saw the monkeys' numbers, you couldn't tell whether they came from a monkey or a human in the same market.

And what we'd really thought we'd done is like we'd actually introduced something that, at least for the monkeys and us, works like a real financial currency.

Question is: do the monkeys start messing up in the same ways we do?

The monkeys entered the market, spent their entire budget and then went back to everyone else.

Can we actually see if the monkeys are doing exactly the same dumb things as humans do?

So we said, let's actually give the monkeys the same kinds of problems that humans tend to get wrong in certain kinds of economic challenges, or certain kinds of economic experiments.

The question we were interested in is whether the monkeys show the same biases.

We introduced the monkeys to two new monkey salesmen.

But they're going to give the monkeys bonuses.

All the time, he adds one, to give the monkeys two.

Sometimes the monkeys get two extra.

Do the monkeys actually want to play it safe and then go with the guy who's going to do the same thing on every trial, or do they want to be risky and try to get a risky, but big, bonus, but risk the possibility of getting no bonus.

Turns out, the monkeys play it safe too.

You might say, well, maybe the monkeys just don't like risk.

Now, the monkeys meet two guys who aren't giving them bonuses; they're actually giving them less than they expect.

Every single time, he's going to take one of these away and give the monkeys just two. the guy on the right is the risky loss.

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