A warning to those using secondary evidence. However, secondary sources are useful, as it is someone else's primary data. As long as it is properly cited then we are all good. What happened is that no-one bothered to check the references, and iterations of the myth were promulgated. Apparently there weren't even a hundred monkeys in the colony, so the original authors did not state that.
I saw pictures of what looks like a real crash at least.
Pretty interesting stuff
A warning to those using secondary evidence. However, secondary sources are useful, as it is someone else's primary data. As long as it is properly cited then we are all good. What happened is that no-one bothered to check the references, and iterations of the myth were promulgated. Apparently there weren't even a hundred monkeys in the colony, so the original authors did not state that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect
https://apnews.com/article/science-pennsylvania-monkeys-animals-fe5ddc03bba64ce62433f79b0ee7c6c3