September 2007 Commentary Available
Test and Label: Companion Animal Evaluations Revisited
An article in the August 20-27, 2007 Newsweek by science writer Sharon Begley, entitled “The Puzzle of Hidden Ability” describes the use of a common and a less familiar test to determine the intelligence of autistic children. I’ve been interested in autism for years because of its relationship to my own work so the study conducted by Laurent Mottran his colleagues immediately caught my attention. It also got me thinking about how easy it also is to judge and label companion animals based on results of tests about which we know little or nothing.