Desrtopa comments on The Santa deception: how did it affect you? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 21 December 2010 06:44:50AM 2 points [-]

That sounds like a good educational process, but once they have some grounding in that, I think it would be good to move on to not telling them the right answers, but presenting them with a number of propositions, and telling them

"These are the possibilities that were raised at the time. Can you work out which is actually correct, and how they figured it out?"