Duck Test (for Minda and Corey) by sandra46
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I dedicate this shot to Minda, as a belated gift for her HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!, and to Corey (Coreyblack) who has come back from the hospital (WELCOME BACK!!!). The shot was taken in a wonderful Botanic garden in New Brunswick last summer. At the end of the caption you'll find the solution to the question: is the waterfowl taking off on the pond shore a duck?
The duck test is a humorous term for a form of inductive reasoning. This is its usual expression:
' If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. '
The test implies that a person can identify an unknown subject by observing that subject's habitual characteristics. It is sometimes used to counter abstruse arguments that something is not what it appears to be.Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849�1916) may have coined the phrase, but the phrase was later popularized in the United States by Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., United States ambassador to Guatemala during the Cold War in 1950, who used the phrase when he accused the Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán government of being Communist. According to another version the father of this phrase was a different person. The Turing Duck Test is an assay developed by Alan Turing (1912-1954) to determine whether a subject is a human or a duck. Turing, though most famous for his eponymous Turing Test, a procedure to determine whether a subject is a man or a robot, actually devised dozens of experiments to determine whether people are, in fact, human beings. While the Turing Duck Test is rarely employed today, it did give rise to the often-misattributed Turing Hypothesis: 'If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.'
Solution: it isn't a duck, because it neither walks nor quacks. ;D
Thank you for your kind comments.
Comments (43)
Only a bird could have posed this question!!!
A beautiful dedication~
Beautiful capture..very lovely spot!!
a wonderful picture!!!!!!
lovely spot and nice text gives the one some thinkings.
Marvellous text Sandra!! And a beautiful place (with duck)
Magnifique vue!
very beautiful landscape Sandra
Formidable work and great dedi !!!
WOW....what a terrific place! Perfect capture here, congratulations!
wonderful capture and dedi
So beautiful!
Sandra, this is such a lovely photo and a splendid dedi to them both. Very much enjoyed your thoughts on the duck test also.
What a beautiful shot and place!!!!!!!
Very beautiful place! Wonderful shot!!
WONDERFUL shot ! Peace and tranquility on this site ! what a beautiful bird !
Bel posticino hai trovato , Sandra !Bella foto dai bei colori ! E grandi dediche ! ( prendi 2 e paghi 1 direbbe la mia vecchia immagine di 30 anni in un supermercato ) . Non conosco Corey ,ma sono comunque contento per lei.Conosco invece Minda a cui rinnovo i miei auguri.
Beautiful composition. excellent work
well, Sandra! this image quacked me up. interesting bush, which leads to the question, is a bird in the hand worth more than a bush as a duck?
Nice to see all this green! I'd add my own 2 bits, but I have to duck out.
Very nice photo!
A wonderful clear capture with superb reflections and I'm sure it is a duck.
ME GUSTA.
oh sandra Thank u very very much ,very beautiful place and wonderful capture like the reflections....HUGS..
A gorgeous setting for these beautiful flowers! Stupendous photography too! Magnificent!!!!!
Superb image Sandra! The pov and reflections are terrific!
Beautiful ,calm scene.
very beautiful !
Very Lovely Shot
Beautiful place i love all the green in the photo and the reflection off the water. Nicely taken!