I was most surprised about the research on other animals that could "predict the future", i.e. corvids and how they vary their actions based on past trends. This reminds me of conditioning experiments done in other animals and how many species learn based on past experiences, and anticipate some sort of stimulus if they were trained on it previously. Though separate from how humans use statistics / numbers to predict the future, it was cool to hear about how crows retrieve hidden food with different parameters in the study.
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