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Re:Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming by mmirate on Monday May 07, 2018 @06:38PM (#17017052)
> ...who told you that lie? An educational psychologist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget%27s_theory_of_cognitive...

Fine, I was off by one year.

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Re:Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming by gowld on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:35PM (#17024068)
Piaget's classification of thinking skills is good, but the theory that these kinds of thinking are developed in discrete stages at those ages has only vague experimental support.

Young children can engage in basic counterfactuals. Ask one.

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Re:Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming by fiatjaf on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @08:45AM (#17020506)
Still a lie. And you still believe in it even after seeing an example in contrary.
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Re:Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming by mmirate on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:42PM (#17024158)
It takes far more than one anecdote to outweigh the evidence in support of Piaget's model.
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