Scientific Discovery Processes in Children, Adults, and Machines
David M. Steier, Tom M. Mitchell · Psychology Press eBooks · 2014
Working with theories is not like skeet shooting, where theories are lofted up and BANG, they are shot down with a falsification bullet, and that&s;s the end of that theory. Theories are more like graduate students, once admitted you try hard to avoid flunking them out, it being much better for them and for the world if they can become long-term contributors to society. (Newell, 1990) Young Children as Good Scientists mouse.