The problem is not that they come up with a hypothesis too early, it’s that they stop too early without testing examples that are not supposed to work. In most cases people are given as many opportunities to test as they’d like, yet they are confident in their answer after only testing one or two cases (all of which came up positive).
The trick is that you should come up with one or more hypotheses as soon as you can (maybe without announcing them), but test both cases which do and don’t confirm it, and be prepared to change your hypothesis if you are proven wrong.
If it requires a round-trip of human speech through a professor (and thus the requisition of the attention of the entire class) then you can hardly say they are given as many opportunities to test as they’d like. A person of functioning social intelligence certainly has no more than 20 such round-trips available consecutively, and less conservatively even 4 might be pushing it for many.
Give them a computer program to interact with and then you can say they have as many opportunities to test as they’d like.
The problem is not that they come up with a hypothesis too early, it’s that they stop too early without testing examples that are not supposed to work. In most cases people are given as many opportunities to test as they’d like, yet they are confident in their answer after only testing one or two cases (all of which came up positive).
The trick is that you should come up with one or more hypotheses as soon as you can (maybe without announcing them), but test both cases which do and don’t confirm it, and be prepared to change your hypothesis if you are proven wrong.
If it requires a round-trip of human speech through a professor (and thus the requisition of the attention of the entire class) then you can hardly say they are given as many opportunities to test as they’d like. A person of functioning social intelligence certainly has no more than 20 such round-trips available consecutively, and less conservatively even 4 might be pushing it for many.
Give them a computer program to interact with and then you can say they have as many opportunities to test as they’d like.