MixedNuts comments on Talking to Children: A Pre-Holiday Guide - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MixedNuts 21 December 2011 09:55:50AM -1 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Emile 21 December 2011 10:48:17AM 1 point [-]

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.