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Direct linkDenison, Stephanie; Bonawitz, Elizabeth; Gopnik, Alison; Griffiths, Thomas L. – Cognition, 2013
We present a proposal--"The Sampling Hypothesis"--suggesting that the variability in young children's responses may be part of a rational strategy for inductive inference. In particular, we argue that young learners may be randomly sampling from the set of possible hypotheses that explain the observed data, producing different hypotheses with…
Descriptors: Sampling, Probability, Preschool Children, Inferences
