I was looking for something lighter for a Sunday afternoon and came across this. I haven’t read the original paper, just a reference to it, but\u00a0I reckon\u00a0that ‘Orangoutang score’ is more fun than ‘random guess score’.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Orangoutang score is that score on a standardised reading test that can be obtained by a well-trained Orangoutang under these special conditions. A slightly hungry Orangoutang is placed in a small cage that has an oblong window and four buttons. The Orangoutang has been trained that every time the reading teacher places a neatly typed multiple choice item in a reading test in the oblong window, all that he (the Orangoutang) has to do to get a bit of banana is to press a button, any of these buttons, which, incidentally, are labelled A, B, C and D.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fry, E. (1971) The Orangoutang score. Reading Teacher<\/em>, 24, 360-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was looking for something lighter for a Sunday afternoon and came across this. I haven’t read the original paper, just a reference to it, but\u00a0I reckon\u00a0that ‘Orangoutang score’ is more fun than ‘random guess score’. \u2018The Orangoutang score is … Continue reading