Here's the quickie CNN version.
Why don't I think it's inferential reasoning? Because the wasps form some sort of mental hierarchy of the five colors, where transitivity doesn't require that kind of relationship.
OK, you might say, but this is still A case of transitivity, right? But I wonder if e.g. B always being associated as proximate to the always-safe-zone A, even if B is 50/50 bad, causes it to be positioned on the hierarchy near A anyway, especially since the learning effect was not huge and the number of test cases small. If so, what we have is more like "relative dangers, distinguished and stored in a sequence that can be reaccessed in different combinations". But that's not inferential. It's a really cool building block of potential inference-making, however.Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Thu May 09, 2019 6:59 am
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