I'm a monkey

[kestrell]

For the past two weeks I've been participating in a neuroscience study which requested blind participants evaluate word pairs for similarities. The person who informed me about the study said each survey would take 4 to 8 hours, and I was all cocky and like, oh, I read and I'm good with words, so it probably won't take *me* that long.

Realization: no matter how good you are at something, doing it 989 times in a row will set off your boredom threshhold until you want to run away screaming "No more, pleeeeeeze!!!"

I now have a whole new respect for lab monkeys.

This made me want to hear a monkey song, so here is my favorite one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSyE8IecKjQ

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Love the tune — did you know the performer before you search, or is this down to the serendipitous long tail?

I can feel you, Kes. I like to think I can ace any test invented, but the test they presented to diagnose my ADD was horrible. On the one hand, they're testing me! Must perform! Must excel! On the other paw, I can not look at those words slowly moving across the screen and transcribe them any more.

[kestrell]

I actually was kind of familiar with Big Maybelle previously, as I adore her song "Rain Down Rain" (which you can also find on YouTube, and is just amazing); however, I didn't know she originally did this song, but I had a more recent version recorded by a New Orleans band and burlesque review. Alot of the old blues and jazz recordings available on YouTube just aren't easily findable through Amazon, which has an incredibly crappy search engine. Anyway, Irecently found a very simple YouTube-to-MP3 converter Web site, so I've been spending waaaay too much time on YouTube.

I can't even imagine what it must be like for anyone, let alone a kid, to have to undergo hours of those cognitive tests--at least I could go do other things and come back to it when I felt like it.