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  1. Technion, Haifa, Israel

    N. Hadar & L. Henkin

  2. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Hadar, N., Henkin, L. Children's conditional reasoning part II: Towards a reliable test of conditional reasoning ability. Educational Studies in Mathematics 9, 97–114 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00352195

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