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255 boys and 258 girls enrolled in grades 3 through 7 and grade 9 were shown a film containing a series of questions concerning probabilistic events associated with two populations differing in the relative proportions of two characteristics. Significant developmental changes in frequency of correct response occurred, but the level of response differed greatly among questions. Particularly difficult were questions involving knowledge of purported prior events.
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1. This study was supported by grant M3519 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U. S. Public Health Service and is part of a larger study currently being conducted by the authors and Robert E. Klein.
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Hale, G.A., Miller, L.K. & Stevenson, H.W. Developmental changes in children’s concepts of probability. Psychon Sci 9, 229–230 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330843
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