THE SECRET LIVES OF THE BRAIN
https://www.thespruce.com/ Male or Female Chick In a chicken and egg production company, learning the sex of the chicks early on was crucial to reducing costs. If the chick was female, it would be considered a chicken, and if it was a male, it would be culled to avoid cost. However, it took 35–40 days for the chick’s sex to be understood. In order to shorten this period, they sought help from a person who had lived in a village life since childhood. The villager could know the sex of the chicks one to two weeks after hatching with 95% accuracy. When they asked him about the secret of this method, the villager could not explain how he did it, he simply replied that he somehow knew. A similar situation was the same when people from different villages were asked. For many years in the village, people who took care of animals could predict the sex of the chicks with 95% accuracy, but they could not tell how they knew it. Thereupon, the company started to implement a method like this:...