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    Supports→Experimental results in comparative psychology are systematically interpreted to depict humans as cognitively superior, even when the data support alternative interpretations.

    Matsuzawa reframed Ayumu's demonstrated working memory superiority as evidence of a human cognitive trade-off favoring abstraction.

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    Further exemplifying value-ladenness, it is not uncommon for experimental results in comparative psychology to be communicated in a way that depicts the human species as “superior,” which can be illustrated by some experiments that have compared chimpanzee performance to our own. Daniel Povinelli and colleagues (1999), for example, found that chimpanzees outperform children in a gaze-following task, but interpreted the children’s poorer performance as evidence of their possession of superior cog

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