Emergent Understanding and Attribution of Randomness: Comparative Analysis of the Reasoning of Primary Grade Children and Undergraduates
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Cognition and Instruction
- Vol. 16 (3) , 285-265
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1603_3
Abstract
In this study, I examined primary grade children's emergent understanding and attribution of randomness, as reflected in the classicist and frequentist forms of objectivist probability. Participant...Keywords
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