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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 August 2013 06:26:13PM 5 points [-]

Far as I can tell, you just have to keep hammering at it. Children pretty much exhibit all the major cognitive biases, untrammelled. I do occasionally ask "How do you know that?" and pursue it a bit, but it doesn't take long to exhaust an extroverted 6yo's philosophical introspection.