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I suspect you need to travel some (most?) of the inferential distance to becoming a rationalist (one way or another) before you can start clicking on ideas and concepts you're hearing for the first time.
Maybe you could devise a click-test and give it to different groups to see what kinds of people click more often?
At age eight? Even I wasn't much of a rationalist until nine or so.
I wonder if we should just use the word Bayesian and drop "Rationalist". It has an entrenched meaning opposite to empiricist. We can also use words like Skeptic, Scientists, Popperian, and the like in their traditional meanings.
But no one can be a Bayesian except in the statistical-method-advocacy sense of the term.
I think the traditional "rationalist/empiricist" dichotomy is most likely a confusion. I don't mind at all if we end up helping to displace this terminology by spreading our sense of "rationalist".