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If you're asking it to add numbers below 10 there's an up to 5% of getting it right. And I doubt you're asking it to add 9+9 so probably closer to 10% and above if you're asking it to put, say, 4+4 together.
That said, I don't think they're dumb at all.
Out of animals their size, they've found a niche for sure and avoided becoming irrelevant for thousands of years (since ~3500 BCE).
Horses, dogs and other animals that can "calculate" don't even need to be lucky, let alone calculate. They're used to work with humans, so they'll notice subtle clues in their owners behaviour. They just stomp or bark or whatever until the human subconsciously changes his facial expression from excited to satisfied or whatever.
Exactly, horses have a keen nose for figuring out our innermost thoughts. That is why weak willed people can be easily scared by these fearsome equines.
i'm not weak willed, i'm just mad that every fucking other person has to clean their animal's shit at the park, horse owners/riders just leave it where it falls. it's irresponsible and i don't know a single horse rider/owner who takes proper care of their poop.
Very good point. At least dogs recognize human expressions, but I don't know if horses have developed as deep an evolutionary bond as that.
Well, if we didn't have horses, how else could we tell how fast can a car go? By cat power? Haha, clearly our world turns around, or let me say, the world trots around thanks to our equine friends.
We should be just careful of who is riding who.
Not to derail your point, but growing up in Australia, we would mostly use kW. Like, it's a 200kw engine instead of saying a 270hp engine.
Seeing as how America still measures things in foot, I think the measurement for horsepower would probably be "manpower", as weak as that is. Or maybe dogpower? I know first nation people used dogs as sled animals, and that's pretty much universal - except for Oceania.
uh, statesia uses horses. sensible places use (kilo)watts.