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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

TL;DR: He was very good at reading human emotions and noticed when people got excited as he approached the correct answer, then stopped.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I choose to believe the horse could math.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno. Being able to read human emotions that well seems more impressive to me 🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I bet it does ^/j

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I wish I could do either

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is always the explanation... There is a term for it, and I cannot recall at this moment. It is related to the Clever Hans Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans), but there's another term for it... "Facilitated.." something?

Edit: I think it's "facilitated communication" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Don't be a neigh-sayer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For that he would still need some way of knowing the correct answer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He read body language, it didn't work if the one asking didn't know the answer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What if he read their minds instead