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Show THE GERMAN THINKING HORSE. Some years ago Hans, a German horse, added new value to tho nhrase. norse sonao,' for he performed feats that seamed lo prove that' he really thought. He distinguished colors, musical mu-sical notea, numbers and photographs, performed additions that even Involved In-volved fractions, picked out the letters ?f,hi a,ohabet. and from a calendar told the hour of the day, the day of tho weok and tho day of the month. All these feats were performed under un-der conditions that shut out anv chanco of collusion -with tho mastor " Learned committees investigated and concluded that Hans could reason hotter than many peoplo of fair intelligence, in-telligence, or eleo that there was transference of thought from the control con-trol to tho horse. A Gorman psychologist psychol-ogist nlmost avowod that Hans has a mind not Inferior to man's. Alas' There always Is .somobody moro learned than the learned. A student In the Psychological Inetl-i tute at Berlin took the trail after Hans, and nftor twelve months of, HHiHHHHflHHHHHHj Toutonlcally thorough investigation has rounded Hang up and stripped him of much of his glor, It Is the old story of eyes and no ocs of thoao who, having eyes, see not. This open-eyed Herr noticed that Hans, In order to answer correctly, had to sec the questioner, or, If he were hidden, others of tho testers. If all were Ignorant of the right answer, Hans was unublc to answor correctly. i- r i.i ... i . If the question was asked In Choctaw Instead of German, nnd Hans saw the-questioner, the-questioner, he generally leplicd correctly. cor-rectly. When thc expeilraentor knew the answer and was seen, Hans succeeded suc-ceeded ninety times In a hundred, but when tho nnswer was unknown, Hans failed nlnoty-two times. It followed that tho "thinking" horse learned the answer In advance from tho tester. The problem becamo this: Did Hans read thought or did the 4 oxperimoriter lndicnte the right replica re-plica unawares? Tho solution loaves us marveling at animals' Instinct and po-er for observation, obser-vation, nnd confirms the contention that thoy do not possess tho reasoning faculty. It makes us wonder at tho instinctive and unconscious expression expres-sion of our thoughts through our bodies. bod-ies. Tho Btudent demonstrated that almost al-most everybody who usks a question, - ' J to which he knows1 the nnswer and for ' I' which ho earnestly desires a coirect , loply, Indicates the expected answer f .S simply through lack of control of the ta muscles, usually those of the head, v N; and Hans observes tho unconscious ? 1' and minute motion of the head. N The more faith one has In Hans or I 1 the greater bis desire that tho horse N succeed, the greater tho movement of V Ji the head unawares. Spokesman Re- ; !" view. J Mj |