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De Finetti’s approach of an event of two levels of knowledge was recently proposed as the model of reference for psychology studies. We show that de Finetti’s qualitative probability framework seems to be “natural” to children aged from 3 to 4 as well as to account for children’s heuristic approach to probabilistic reasoning.
D. Petturiti—Partially supported by the INdAM-GNAMPA Project 2016 U2016/000391, the Italian Ministry of Health grant J52I14001640001, and the trilateral DFG-FMSH-Villa Vigoni Project “Human Rationality: Probabilistic Points of View”.
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Baratgin, J., Coletti, G., Jamet, F., Petturiti, D. (2017). Experimental Evaluation of the Understanding of Qualitative Probability and Probabilistic Reasoning in Young Children. In: Benferhat, S., Tabia, K., Ali, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice. IEA/AIE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10351. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60045-1_13
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