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There is definitely also an association influencing how people view it. For example rats, people who live in cities would find rats to be gross as they are seen going into the sewers and trash and thus would have a negative association despite their intelligence. Pigs may be smart and the same with octopus and squid but how often do people actually experience that? Mostly in form of bacon and other food forms.

Dolphins and dogs both have positive associations that people experience so it’s not surprising that people would put it higher on the scale
gpt
&gt;There is definitely also an association influencing how people view it. For example rats, people who live in cities would find rats to be gross as they are seen going into the sewers and trash and thus would have a negative association despite their intelligence.

Folks in the rural areas would find sewer rats gross as well. They're very different from the tiny field mice they usually see.