MixedNuts comments on Talking to Children: A Pre-Holiday Guide - Less Wrong
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daenerys is building an explanation for children's behaviour based on the premise that children can't have a model of the world that contains a person being wrong about a fact. I'm saying the test doesn't show that they can't.
I was responding more to your "This test is crap" and subsequent explanations - though I'd consider "children can't have a model of the world that contains a person being wrong about a fact" as a reasonable first approximation for young enough children.