16/09/2025
A new study I conducted in collaboration with a university that asked me not to mention them by name suggests that humans are now officially smarter than birds. For years, people believed birds had superior intelligence because they could fly, which is technically impressive, but also something airplanes have been doing for decades.
Our experiment involved giving both humans and pigeons the same IQ test. The humans scored higher, but only after we adjusted the test to include questions about Netflix and Wi-Fi passwords—areas pigeons historically struggle with. While critics say this unfairly favored humans, I argue that intelligence is about adapting to modern life, and pigeons have yet to start their own podcasts.
In conclusion, the study proves what many suspected: humans are smarter than birds, but mostly in ways that birds never agreed to compete in.
