Difficulties remain in distinguishing between mutual and self-assessment in animal contests

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Effects of isotocin on social responses in a cooperatively breeding fish (2012, background): “…not to use a composite measure of the asymmetry between the two contestants because asymmetry measures can lead to erroneous conclusions when analysing contest data (for thorough discussions of this issue, see: Taylor & Elwood 2003; Arnott & Elwood 2009; Briffa & Elwood 2009; Reddon et al. 2011b).”
Rules of engagement for resource contests in a social fish (2011, methodology): “…from mutual assessment model using the current method (both models make similar predictions about winner and loser RHP and contest cost; see Briffa & Elwood 2009), the lack of a relation between loser size and contest duration in our study is inconsistent with the logic of cumulative…”