In ‘learning trap’ experiment, adults leap to conclusions while children explore
>Children gathered much more evidence than the adults and were much better at learning. Most of the children did figure out the right rule. However, they earned fewer stars than the grown-ups.<p>For me, this sentence at the end breaks the whole argument down - so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing being optimized for!<p>The question then is - could they set this up such that kids actually perform better than adults?