Back in the late '70s, B. F. Skinner, a noted behavioral psychologist, had a group of students who had done a lot of research with rats and mazes. Someone asked him one day, " What is the real difference between a rat and a human being?" Now, these fledgling behaviorists decided that they needed to experiment to find out.

So the students built two mazes, one to accommodate the rats, and as one sized for the human beings. They took a control group of rats and taught them to run the small maze for cheese. Then they invited a group of fellow students to participate and taught them to run the large maze for fifty-dollar bills. They didn't notice any really significant difference, other than small variations in the data, as the humans were able to learn to run the maze a little faster than the rats.

The really interesting statistics came up when the students did the extinguishing part of the test. They removed the cheese and the fifty-dollar bills. After a small number of trials, the rats stopped running the maze...However, the humans wouldn't stop running the maze over and over again! It has been rumored that to this day, if you go to visit that lab late at night...some of those students have broken in and are still looking for those fifty-dollar bills!...... . . . . . . . . . . . . .