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<p><a href="https://www.bfskinner.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Superstition-in-the-pigeon.pdf">source</a>
The experiment points to the birds associating their behavior with being presented with food. Even though the behavior was unrelated. </p>
<p>The article draws connections between rituals and beneficial outcomes, though the two are not linked. This behavior does get reinforced though, as it did with the pigeons, as they associated their behavior with the arrival of food, even if it did not do so every time. </p>
<p>There is a final note on experiment setup and superstitious behavior, perhaps leading to bias or acts of <em>ritual</em> that are not beneficial or relevant to the experiment. </p>

Superstition of the Pigeon

Concrete steps to access and contribute to the DBGI Dendron


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Welcome the the COMMONS Lab Open Dendron !

In the [COMMONS Lab](https://www.unifr.ch/bio/en/groups/allard/) we intent to follow the [Open Notebook Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-notebook_science) approach to document our research.

For this we use the [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so/) system as a mean to efficiently capture notes and publish them.

## What is this note

This note is a succinct tutorial note aiming to get you started in the use of the COMMONS Lab Dendron.

## Tutorial

### Dendron. 

#### What is Dendron ?

> Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool. Think of it as a cache for everything that you care about - if you've spent more then five minutes solving a problem, you should never spent any more time solving the same exact problem.
> 
> Dendron is a knowledge base built by and for developers and integrates natively with IDEs like VS Code and VSCodium.

#### Where to get more info on Dendron ?

- You can get more information in the Dendron system at the official website www.dendron.so
- All the Dendron documentation is hosted here https://wiki.dendron.so/. It is, obviously, a Dendron itself.

#### Concrete steps to access and contribute to the DBGI Dendron

1. Install [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/download)
2. Install [Dendron](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dendron.dendron) from the VSCode marketplace 
3. Clone the COMMONS Dendron repo

    In your terminal
    ```
    git clone https://github.com/commons-research/commons-dws-public.git
    ```
4. In VSCode open (File/Open) the cloned repository.
5. Voila ! You should now be in the COMMONS Lab Open Dendron.

Feel free to explore and contribute.
A first, important step could be to configure VSCode so that you can easily add a daily note. See steps described at [[open-notebook.commons.setup]]


## Questions, comments, suggestions ?

Feel free to contribute here https://github.com/orgs/commons-research/discussions

