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Preschoolers Outsmart College Students at Figuring Out Gadgets
Preschoolers can be smarter than college students at figuring out how unusual toys and gizmos work because they're more mentally flexible and less biased than adults in their ideas about cause and effect. Preschoolers and kindergartners instinctively follow Bayesian logic, a statistical model that draws inferences by calculating the probability of possible outcomes.
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