While a couple of the negative reviews have a point or two, such as the fact that he doesn't chart how changes in thinking occur over time (a massive and very lengthy undertaking, I might add), I think that every science teacher in this country should have a copy, and if I were a billionaire I would buy them!
My expertise is in cognitive errors made by adults, and hoped to find some origins of these in this book. No, not here. But what is here is just astounding in many cases. My favorite fact: 80% of adults think that GMO foods should have a warning label (despite every fact to the contrary), and 80% (the same ones?) think that foods containing DNA should also have a label. Are these people eating rocks, or what?
He details studies of children, mainly, how instead of saying "I don't know" when asked about motion, matter, evolution, gravity, the shape of the world, and so on, they have theories which he labels 'intuitive'. All of them are wrong in some ways, but when taught that they are not right and they are provided the real scientific explanations, the intuitive ideas are very resistant to change, especially if the ideas have a religious basis in some people's mind, such as evolution.
So we don't come into the world as a blank slate, but quickly develop ideas about our world that are wrong. I find this very disturbing and think that science needs to be taught from very early in life, maybe even in kindergarten! I look for more from this young man. Perhaps he will extend his research to what kids think about people and why they do what they do - i.e. researching the origins of cognitive errors like "He tripped and fell and so he is clumsy, but when I trip and fall it's just an accident.", known as the fundamental attribution error, taught in Psych 101 in college.
Very clearly written! Accessible to everyone with a high school degree, I should think.
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William F. Wallace
Intuitive theories created by children
2017年10月18日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
fabiano moulin de moraes
explica com clareza as dificuldades da conciliação entre nossas teorias intuitivas e a ciência.
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Adriano Olivier
Qualidades
2018年10月11日にブラジルでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Vanessa LoBue
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more ...
2017年9月30日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
ROBERTO M.
USEFUL, ENTERTAINING but read with the purpose of learning something!
2017年7月5日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
