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Originally Posted by Caligari
you must admit that the odds of one octopus making 8 accurate "guesses" in a row is pretty incredible.
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If the odds for winning in each game (a coin flip) is 2, then the odds of guessing all correct is 256. The odds for guessing WRONG in a 8 row is also 256.
If 6 billion people, monkeys or squids took the same wild guess, then over 23 million will guess correctly and the same amount will guess all wrong.
I'm not saying the octopus doesn't have intelligence, just that a guess like that has nothing to do with intelligence. In fact, I believe the octopus liked the colors of the german flag and that's what he sticked to. And lucky for him, Germany tends to improve throughout these games. He didn't "know" that and if we flipped the flags and "told" him, he wouldn't understand it ... and guess all wrong. That's not incredible intelligence or "zero" intelligence, it's just plain math
