Great Tits Chosen for Greatness Makes Them Representative: A commentary on Farrar et al.'s "Replications, Comparisons, Sampling and the Problem of Representativeness in Animal Cognition Research"
Abstract:Studies of animal cognition struggle frequently with the question of how representative results from small samples are for a species. A recent article by Farrar et al. (2021), in this journal, highlights some of the major problems and suggests some solutions to these with cautionary examples drawn from the animal cognition literature. One such example comes from a study of inhibitory control in the great tit, Parus major, by the authors of this commentary. Although we recognize, and agree, that there are issue… Show more
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