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mirror test

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A test to determine whether a non-human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition, carried out by introducing the animal to a mirror, painting a mark on the animal, and observing whether it touches the mark on its own body after seeing it in the mirror image.

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Rats do not pass this mirror test.

"It was a mirror test," he said.

Next came what burn doctors call "the mirror test".

Yet not all members of a certifiably self-reflective species will pass the mirror test.

This paper describes the engineering design and analysis of this mirror test assembly.

In referring to the mirror test or calling James Joyce a modernist, you wouldn't need to cite anyone.

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There were millions of unemployed Americans even at the height of the 1990s boom, when the joke was that anyone who could pass the "mirror test --that is, anyone whose breatest --thatg a mirror, indicatest --thathey were actually alise--could find work.

Thereafter, a 'mirror test' was performed.

To gauge your ability to rebound from career setbacks, take the self-assessment at hbr.org/assessments/mirror-test.

I do believe that dolphins are smart ("Brainy Dolphins Pass the Human Mirror Testst," May 1).

Hayzlett's book, The Mirror Test, is almost a social media experiment for the author.

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