I tried to take the cephalopod intelligence test.
James Wood, a teuthologist (cephalopod scientist), imagined creating an intelligence test for humans, by an octopus:
“So the octopus thinks: ‘All right. I’m going to make an intelligence test for humans, because they show a little bit of promise, in a very few ways.’ And the first question the octopus comes up with is this: How many color patterns can your severed arm produce in one second?”
Turns out humans only get two tries, and now I have to type this out with my tongue. Awkward.
moarscienceplz says
It’s only a flesh wound.
Daz: Experiencing A Slight Gravitas Shortfall says
Try this.
Jafafa Hots says
Two.
Cuttlefish says
Ha!
Amphiox says
It would be unfair to give the vertebrate only two tries. We should get 10. One for each finger.
Callinectes says
“Teuthologist” is one syllable away from Dara O’Briain’s “Toothyologist”.
Louis says
I took the test twice too and am having no problems typing this at all.
They don’t call me “clever dick” for nothing, you know…
…WHAT? WHAT? Look, I had to make that joke before someone else did. It was begging to be made. You can’t give a boy a set up like that and expect him to not make the appropriate, guild approved, union mandated dick joke. There’s no pleasing some people.
Louis
Daz: Experiencing A Slight Gravitas Shortfall says
Now, if you can manage Ctrl Alt Del…
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
…if they still aren’t pleased after someone who can type with his tongue…
chigau (違う) says
Feed me Seymore
anuran says
For fewk’s sake what do you think you should do?
Regenerate your arms and try again.
Athywren says
So I haven’t taken the test yet, being a little laceration-shy after attempting the test on my finger last week with the aid of a ceramic mug, but I’ve been looking at the pretty pictures and… I’m wondering…
http://media.eol.org/content/2010/12/10/06/14710_580_360.jpg
Am I alone in thinking this guy needs a top hat?
blf says
I thought poopyhead had many multiple tentacles / legs / arms, horns, some scales,
breathedbelched fire, and has several Zebrafish in his ear (a few too many Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters earlier in the year he decided to start using a Babblefish). And he can’t outsmart an octopus?!??Sounds about right…