In 1904, a group of prominent scholars from the Prussian Academy of Sciences asserted that “Clever Hans,” a horse, possessed near-human mathematical abilities.
However, it was not until several years of rigorous examination by psychologist Oskar Pfungst that it was revealed the horse was only responding to the cues from its handlers.
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@seblammers Years later it was revealed that Clever Hans and Pfungst were both pawns in an endgame conceived by the true mastermind, the donkey Cunning Klaus.
