[ExI] Seeing Through New Lenses

[natasha at natasha.cc]

LOL

Quoting spike <spike66 at att.net>:

> ...
>>
>> > A developmental psychologist showed three pictures to children - a
>> > cow, a chicken and some grass. He asked children from America which
>> > two of the pictures belonged together.  Most of them
>> grouped the cow
>> > and chicken together because they were both objects in the same
>> > category of animals.  Chinese children on the other hand tended to
>> > group the cow and grass together because "cows eat grass" - they
>> > focused on the relationship between two objects rather than the
>> > objects themselves.
>> >
>> > [Which of these do YOU prefer?  Which of these do you think
>> is closer
>> > to The Truth?  Why?  - Jef]
>>
>> The cow and the chicken, because they are Friends.  Damien
>
>
> The chicken and the grass belong together, with with the cow being the odd
> lifeform out.  Clearly neither the chicken nor the grass feed their
> offspring directly from glands on their bodies.
>
> spike
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