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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by camouflage it's

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what we wish we were an expert in every time our crush catches us daring across [Man hides behind tree as girl looks at him]

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the cafeteria all right here's our question Cammy is interested in studying

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bonobos in Africa she sets up a camouflage look

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out in a tree and patiently wait to watch bonobos in their undisturbed

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habitat this type of study is called a what and here the potential answers...

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alright let's start by getting rid of e the

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Safari method well believe it or not camis camouflage isn't going to be super [Woman in a car on a safari drive]

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effective it she's rolling around Africa and a 2-ton Land Rover animals have

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these pesky little things called ears there's also one other slight issue with [A monkey eating a banana]

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this answer that Safari method isn't real so let's weed that one out of the

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pack right away we could also weed out D sorry D it's survival of the fittest

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around these parts why well the Hawthorne method is another [Scientists appear in a lab]

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thing that said just doesn't exist the Hawthorne effect however which does

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exist it's when the thing being observed changes its behavior for the better

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based on the knowledge that well it's being observed you know like when you

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catch your dad watching you in the rearview mirror and you just happen to [Boy slapping brother in the head]

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be on your best behavior and you definitely we're not whacking your

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little brother in the face with your jacket

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two seconds earlier alright moving on see double-blind method well a double

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blind experiment occurs when both the researcher and the participants are

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unaware of which group is the test group in which group is the control group

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we're not knocking the intelligence in the bonobo but we have a feeling they're [Bonobos in the forest]

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less aware of whether or not they're in a certain group and more aware that

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pilot poop they can fling it our intrepid researcher candy that means we [Bonobo flings poop at woman]

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can get rid of C.. well let's in the herd a little more and get rid of be a case

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study is the process of research which analyzes a specific case

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that's not what camis doing and it's not what we're looking for [Cammy videoing a bonobo]

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so that list leaves us with a naturalistic observation well

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naturalistic observation is a type of descriptive research that involves

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studying something in its natural and undisturbed habitat and as we can [Bonobos in their natural habitat]

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plainly see Cammie setup a camouflaged lookout in a tree and I'm sorry since we [Cammy looking through bincoulars]

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totally can't see because that's some really great camouflage and we set up

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there in the lookout tree where are you well sounds like naturalistic [Cammy appears from behind a tree]

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observation to us and not that we can see her or anything but we strongly

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recommend Cammy duck that Bonobo has quite an arm on him [Cammy looking through binoculars]

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