Been trading since before the internet. Back in the paper, pencil and ruler days.
Your conclusion about the rat and Yale students is flawed.
Your conclusion that the rats approach mainly accepting the simple solution and the modest improvement with disregard to improving his/her results is wrong.
Eventually the students would figure out one of two things.
1.) There is a pattern and the solution produces the most favorable outcome.
2.)There is no solution, the food placement seems random with a bias towards the left side.
You say that your logic beats the experiment's results!