The only thing I find surprising in that story is: "The findings go against one prominent theory that says children can only show smart, flexible behavior if they have conceptual knowledge – knowledge about how things work..."
I don't see how anybody who's watched human beings at all can come with such a theory. People -- not just children -- do so much by rote, "because that's the way we do things here", come up with totally clueless scientific theories like this, and so forth. Joe and Bob are carpenters, working on a house. Joe is hammering and Bob is handing him the nails. Bob says, "Hey, wait a minute, half of these nails are defective." He takes out a nail and holds it up and sure enough, the head is toward the wall and the point is toward the hammer. Joe retorts, "Those aren't defective, you idiot, they're for the other side of the house." Josh ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
