Thanks for pointing this out. I think the OP might have gotten their conclusion from this paragraph:
(Note that, in the web page that the OP links to, this very paragraph is quoted, but for some reason “energy” is substituted for “center-of-mass”. Not sure what’s going on there.)
In any case, this paragraph makes it sound like participants who inherited a wrong theory did do worse on tests of understanding (even though participants who inherited some theory did the same on average of those who inherited only data, which I guess implies that those who inherited a right theory did better). I’m slightly off-put by the fact that this nuance isn’t present in the OP’s post, and that they haven’t responded to your comment, but not nearly as much as I had been when I’d read only your comment, before I went to read (the first 200 lines of) the paper for myself.
Thanks for pointing this out. I think the OP might have gotten their conclusion from this paragraph:
(Note that, in the web page that the OP links to, this very paragraph is quoted, but for some reason “energy” is substituted for “center-of-mass”. Not sure what’s going on there.)
In any case, this paragraph makes it sound like participants who inherited a wrong theory did do worse on tests of understanding (even though participants who inherited some theory did the same on average of those who inherited only data, which I guess implies that those who inherited a right theory did better). I’m slightly off-put by the fact that this nuance isn’t present in the OP’s post, and that they haven’t responded to your comment, but not nearly as much as I had been when I’d read only your comment, before I went to read (the first 200 lines of) the paper for myself.