Given unambiguous evidence, preschoolers play indiscriminately and rarely try to isolate candidate causes¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? When evidence was unambiguous, preschoolers played indiscriminately and rarely attempted to isolate candidate causes. → Cook 2011

Evidence¶

Cook 2011¶

Cook, Claire, Noah D. Goodman, and Laura E. Schulz. (2011). Where Science Starts: Spontaneous Experiments in Preschoolers' Exploratory Play. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.03.003

q3 · i? · causal · r?

The article reports that in children's exploratory play, "given unambiguous evidence children played indiscriminately and rarely tried to isolate candidate causes", contrasting with their behavior under ambiguous evidence. No effect size is printed in the available text.

"given unambiguous evidence children played indiscriminately and rarely tried to isolate candidate causes"

Discussion¶

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