Neil deGrasse Tyson if famous for telling us that children are natural scientists, and cautioning us to be careful not to ruin that thing about them. He makes a good case. No one ever thought, I think, that he meant that children were born resistant to the sorts of biases that scientists actively eschew, or…
Cook, C., Goodman, N. & Schulz, L. (2011). Where science starts: Spontaneous experiments in preschoolers’ exploratory play, Cognition, 120 (3) 341-349. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.03.003
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