The 10 Smartest Dog Breeds - Animals | HowStuffWorks

In canine psychology, "working intelligence" is a metric used to assess how adept a dog is at following orders. Researchers are working on assessing instinctive canine intelligence (hunting, herding, retrieving), as well as adaptive intelligence, or problem solving. But for now, the best information we have about dog intelligence is centered on working intelligence, or how obedient they can become through training.

In his 2006 book "The Intelligence of Dogs," Stanley Coren interviewed 200 dog obedience judges and produced a list of the breeds that display the highest degree of working intelligence. He organized his lists into tiers, with very effective working dogs who might learn a new command in fewer than five tries, 95 percent of the time, at the top tier.

On the second tier he placed working dogs like the English springer spaniel, who might learn a new trick 85 percent of the time after being exposed 15 times. And so on and so forth, until we find ourselves at the sixth tier with an Afghan hound, for instance, who might learn a new trick 30 percent of the time after being exposed to it 100 times.

According to De Waal, Afghans are likely perfectly intelligent, but are, like cats, "not beholden to anyone."

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