Error matters: An initial exploration of elementary school children's understanding of experimental error

AM Masnick, D Klahr - Journal of Cognition and Development, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Error is a pervasive and inescapable aspect of empirical science, and it often plays a causal
role in experimental outcomes. But little is known about children's understanding of the …

Information seeking on Bayesian conditional probability problems: A fuzzy‐trace theory account

CR Wolfe - Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the 'heuristics and biases' approach to the study of decision making has been
criticized, with a call for better integrated theory. Three experiments stemming from fuzzy …

When to trust the data: Further investigations of system error in a scientific reasoning task

DE Penner, D Klahr - Memory & cognition, 1996 - Springer
When evaluating experimental evidence, how do people deal with the possibility that some
of the feedback is erroneous? The potential for error means that evidence evaluation must …

[PDF][PDF] Hypothesis generation and testing in Wason's 2–4–6 task

JE Russo, MG Meloy - Unpublished manuscript, 2002 - Citeseer
The roles of hypothesis generation and testing in Wason's 2-4-6 rule discovery task were
investigated by tracing the discovery process. This process consisted of an initial phase of …

[책][B] Scientific reasoning in the presence of data errors

DE Penner - 1993 - search.proquest.com
Recent psychological investigations of scientific reasoning have expanded our
understanding of hypothesis generation and testing. One goal of this body of research is to …