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I don't think pre-school aged children even know where to look for the data yet.

• wccrawford 5y ago
  I think they do: Ask their parents or teachers. But remembering it long enough to get away from the person who told them the fact and then ask a different person... That's another story. I'd think far too much would be happening for them to bother remembering to ask. Being able to look it up independently of another human makes it a lot easier to verify information immediately, so I'm not surprised that people who can read are more likely to verify info than those who can't.
• ALittleLight 5y ago
  In this test the kids are sorting figures that do or don't activate a music box. The box is left next to them so they could use the box to test the figures prior to sorting them or they could rely on what an experimenter told them (white figures activate the box) or what they observed when a different experimenter was actually using the toy. What the title means by "seek data" is "Did the kids try the figurines on the box themselves?"
• jkepler 5y ago
  They also get a ton of data about the world through free play, especially outside in nature, but they experience it as play, not data gathering.