Relevant Japanese is Relevant

Today's class reading was an explanation of Deveraux's experimenting on Monkey's to determine the quality of their eyesight in regards to human's eyesight. This involved some minor Pavlovian conditioning in order to get the monkey's to learn what was needed for the experiment.

There are four screens, four peepholes, and four switches.

Of these four screens, there are three that have a plan gray pattern, and the last one was striped. In order to get juice, the thirsty monkey (as he had been deprived water prior to the experiment), the monkey had to hit the switch for the striped screen (Hello, Pavlov). The faster they did it, the better. However, as the experiment goes on, the striped pattern becomes more and more difficult to discern from the all-gray pattern. Once a monkey got to the point where they were no longer answering correctly, the experiment ended.

As a result, Deveraux was able to determine that monkey's and human's have like eyesight capabilities.

The end.

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I rather like how we are learning "real world" Japanese and not just reading contrived scenarios. It makes things interesting to say the least.