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Anyone who dugg this should read The Tipping Point. The whole book is about phenomena like this work; and its a really good read.

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And if you actually READ the Wikipedia article, you'll find out the whole thing is a myth. The only lesson to be learned from this story is how easily people will repeat unsubstantiated claims without using critical thinking: http://www.google.com/search?q=hundredth+monkey+my ...

3 little monkeys jumping on the bed, one fell off and bumped his head!!!

NO, I AM THE MONKEY!!!

I wonder what would happen when the hundredth monkey discovers the monkeysphere.

Just goes too show you, we're not so different.
I always rinse my chimpanzee meat, before I eat it.

Same concept as Tipping Point, with a snazzier name. old news.

What, so like Global Warming? Or the "War on Terror"?

Rickrolling demystified.

This blog article is replete with errors. Sweet potatoes don't grow on koshima island; the macaques have been provisioned by scientists with the potatoes for 6 decades, and it is not their primary food - provisioning only occurs a couple times a year. Also the monkeys certainly do not discard the skin- they eat the whole thing. The monkey who invented the washing technique was a young female named Imo. Funny how the blogger assumed it was a male.

I have seen this very thing on digg many times, now bury me monkeys.

why don't I know japanese or how to skateboard?

why are so many people so incredibly stupid?

SHENANIGANS!!!

The article was interesting at first, then became very gay. "...follow your heart..."? wtf.

What a bunch of garbage. This is fiction, not fact. I can't believe how stupid so many of you are that you just blindly believe everything placed on digg--or youtube, or anywhere else, for that matter.

This has been discredited, and if you believe it, you are a complete idiot. There's no middle ground. You are very stupid if you buy into this hokum.

Seriously, is there something wrong with some of you people?

YEAH RIGHT
And monkeys will fly outta my butt !

The Hundredth Monkey Effect is *****:

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC09/Myers.htm
http://www.csicop.org/si/9605/monkey.html

read the wikipedia article it disputes the research in this blog

Hmm... isn't it convenient how the alleged effect takes place at a nice round number? I mean, imagine if it were called "The 233rd monkey effect".

So who was the hundredth monkey that dugg this article?

"when it comes to business, listen to your heart as opposed to the others around you -"

Were this story true (which it isn't) - who is to say that the monkeys who were still not "washing their potatos" were not listening to their hearts?

Also - to play devil's advocate... what is the opportunity cost of letting a bunch of other monkeys be the ones to eat the skin first while you continue what you are doing (and observe the impact of their new behavior)? What happens if eating the skin kills monkeys who do it after a week?

The thing to keep in mind is: Don't do crap just because it's new... (Of course, this isn't my personal philosophy - I just don't like these little feel-good ***** articles)

Not in my monkeysphere, so don't care.
www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.html

Unfortunately, a dumb monkey started washing sweet potatoes in a stagnant pond, because it was closer than the stream. As a result, all the local monkeys caught cholera and died, as did the monkeys on the neighboring islands.

Natives in that region say that sometimes, late at night, you can hear the ghosts of all those monkeys screaming at the dumbest monkey for giving them all such a bad idea.

Moral: Go ahead and innovate, but always check with Quality Control.

Chimpanzee that!

stop giving these damn dirty apes acid PLEASE!

It may happen that way for monkeys, but for humans, ideas rarely precipitate this way. In history many cultures are are shown where a few members out of that culture will latch onto a new idea or piece of technology through diffusion, and use it to rule and overpower those who choose to ignore the revelation.

For an example, in the mid-late 1800's muzzle loading rifles were sold/given to Maori tribesman in New Zealand; quite a few of the tribes living there knew of their existence because of trade with western culture, but decided to ignore them, not feeling like they needed any change in their way of life. However, a few tribes did, and used those rifles to subjugate the rest of the entire island killing and enslaving the tribes who did not see a need for the muskets.

so obviously, as history shows, the idea of "the hundredth monkey effect" just doesn't exist. there are always members of society who will resist change, no matter what, who follow conservative paths, and who will eventually get bowled over by the the ones who invite change and innovation.

and ideas and innovation, as shown through history, rarely come to one person, but instead are slowly put together over many ideas coming to become one. whether from entirely different societies (like along the silk road) or from within. that principle is called diffusion. Gutenberg DID in fact invent the printing press, but few people realize that the technology he used to put it together was almost all off the shelf, he simply had the bright idea to put it all together.

Y the Last Man was the *****.

It was the best of times, it was the Blurst of times? You stupid monkey!

----"this story is how easily people will repeat unsubstantiated claims without using critical thinking"---------

You mean like Religion?

Actually, one of the main reasons I denounced my Christian faith is because I can't find one single shred of evidence for the Jesus of the Bible. Not one artifact or eyewitness account. Not even in the Bible.

Amazingly, we have not one Jewish, Greek, or Roman writer, even those who lived in the Middle East, much less anywhere else on the earth, who ever mentions him during his supposed life time. This appears quite extraordinary, and you will find few Christian apologists who dare mention this embarrassing fact.

After confronting a few Church members with this new knowledge for lack of evidence, they seemed to get defensive and angry, not merciful and understanding. It then became painfully obvious that these people seems to have NO interest whatsoever in scientific debate. It seems all they care about is re-affirming their superstitious beliefs of disturbing stories of hell and damnation and devils and eternal suffering and ramming them down the throats of unsuspecting children.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong about this. But so far I haven't been.

The hundredth monkey effect has zero credibility in academia. Sweet potato washing, however, was the first observed case of cultural innovation by non-human primates, and it marked the beginning of japanese primatology in the early fifties. I'm sure that the scientists who first observed the potato washing are rolling in their graves at how this 'hundred monkey' crap has come to be associated with their work.

A million monkeys on a million typewriters

So... Is the hundredth monkey the one that writes "Gone With the Wind"?

P.S. Buried for being stupid crap. (And just how does one monkey "ridicule" another?)

I hate every ape I see, from chimpanA to chimpanZ.

(-Troy McClure)

why can't GW be a good little monkey and bring the troops home

yeah, like 9/11 = INSIDE JOB!!!

Get your filty paws off me you damn dirty ape!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6L_hT3QtQ

When I heard this story in college a couple years ago it also had more to it.

From what I remember is that what made this story rather odd is that when all the monkeys on that island started washing their potatoes prior to eating them, monkeys on an entirely different island, much further away, started doing it as well.

http://www.losethegame.com/ you just losts again...