Comparison of ratios and the chance concept in children

Book: 
The Intuitive Source of Probabilistic Thinking in Children
Authors: 
Fischbein, E., Pampu, I., & Minzat, I.
Editors: 
Hintikka, J., Cohen, R., Davidson, D., Nuchelmans, G., & Salmon, W.
Type: 
Chapter
Category: 
Research
Volume: 
85
Pages: 
177-188
Year: 
1975
Publisher: 
D. Reidel
Place: 
The Netherlands
Abstract: 

Children (preschoolers and third-, and sixth-grade pupils) were asked to choose out of 2 sets of marbles of 2 colors the set which they believed offered more chances of drawing a marble of a given color. It was found that a short instruction enabled the third-grade Ss to make their correct decisions, as did the sixth-graders, through a comparison of quantitative ratios. Reprinted from Child Development 41 (1970), 377 - 389.

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