The likelihood of arriving at anything like the right answer seems low
In the useful version of this activity, arriving at right answers is not relevant. Instead, you are collecting tools for thinking about a topic, which is mostly about being able to hold and manipulate ideas in your mind, including incorrect ideas. At some point, you get to use those tools to understand what others have figured out, or what’s going on in the real world. This framing opposes the failure mode where you learn facts without being able to grasp what they even mean or why they hold.
In the useful version of this activity, arriving at right answers is not relevant. Instead, you are collecting tools for thinking about a topic, which is mostly about being able to hold and manipulate ideas in your mind, including incorrect ideas. At some point, you get to use those tools to understand what others have figured out, or what’s going on in the real world. This framing opposes the failure mode where you learn facts without being able to grasp what they even mean or why they hold.