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Clever Hans Research Paper

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Can horses do math? If you had seen a horse called Clever Hans perform in the early 1900s, you might have said yes. This is when a man named Wilhelm von Osten took Hans all over the world to show off his skills, which included understanding German, doing math, and telling time. Hans could not actually do these things, but he did have another impressive talent: picking up on people’s unspoken cues. Von Osten thought he had trained Hans to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Von Osten drew math problems in the ground and Hans would tap out the correct answer with his hoof. Von Osten also “taught” Hans to spell by assigning each letter in the alphabet a number, so that 1 tap stood for A, 2 taps meant B, and so on. Hans answered questions

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