I suspect that this is less true the other two problems—ratios and exponential growth are topics that a mathematical or scientific education is more likely to build intuition for.
This seems to be contradicted by:
the bat and ball question is the most difficult on average – only 32% of all participants get it right, compared with 40% for the widgets and 48% for the lilypads. It also has the biggest jump in success rate when comparing university students with non-students.
Ah yeah, I meant to make this bit clearer and forgot.
I’m not really sure what to make of that statement you put in italics. The jump in success rate could be down to better trained intuition. It could also be due to better access to formal methods. I don’t really see it as good evidence for my guess either way.
This seems to be contradicted by:
Ah yeah, I meant to make this bit clearer and forgot.
I’m not really sure what to make of that statement you put in italics. The jump in success rate could be down to better trained intuition. It could also be due to better access to formal methods. I don’t really see it as good evidence for my guess either way.
If I get more time later I’ll edit the post.