Exactly this. The concluding claim from the paper; > Thus, this study is consistent with the proposal that the majority of preschool children do not seize oppo

Exactly this. The concluding claim from the paper; > Thus, this study is consistent with the proposal that the majority of preschool children do not seize opportunities to engage in structured empirical investigations with the explicit purpose of resolving conflicts that arise from surprising testimony completely ignores the bioeconomics of carrying out “structural empirical investigations”. It is more expensive to carrying out investigations than to take a best guess. In the presence of tons of other cognitive tasks they could be doing, they have no obvious reason to carry out this particular and ostensibly boring investigation. Knowing the natural curiosity of kids, they have a high baseline of investigative behavior.