Why was Clever Hans considered such a sensation throughout the Western world?
The horse called Clever Hans was the highest acclaimed horse of the complete psychology’s history. In initial 1990s, practically each person in United States and Europe knew the wonder horse, Clever Hans.
It was one of the brilliant horses of the world, and was alleged to be one of the smartest animals. It was from Germany, Berlin and was undoubtedly a celebrity. His name was used by the advertisers for selling the products. Its achievements encouraged books, articles in the magazines and songs.
Its extraordinary knowledge was approved by prominent mathematicians and it was evaluated to have equivalent ability of mathematic reasoning as that of a typical boy of 14 years.
It would recognize various objects, use decimals and fractions, read, subtract and add, identify currency, spell, play games of cards and would show astounding deeds of memory.
There was no doubt that people were astonished. Owner of Hans, Wilhelm von Osten was contented. He spent many years for teaching his horse the basics of intelligence of humans.
His aspiration was to convince people about the correctness of Darwin about similarity in the processed of brain on animals and humans. This is why there was so much sensation about Hans in the western world.