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I took the opportunity of seasonal proximity to family and tried this question on a small selection of 6--8 year olds, and I received one correct response (acco

by kqr 4y ago

I took the opportunity of seasonal proximity to family and tried this question on a small selection of 6--8 year olds, and I received one correct response (accompanied by proudly showing the correct application of long multiplication on a big piece of paper) along with two "I don't know, what is it?" None invented their own algorithm and confidently claimed it to be the way.

IshKebab 4y ago
Interesting, but I wouldn't draw the conclusion that children don't sometimes make up plausible sounding but totally wrong explanations for things because they definitely do. Anyone with children knows this. Though they are definitely better at saying I don't know than ChatGPT et al, which have basically been trained to never admit they don't know and always bullshit instead.