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THE preceding communication presents two experiments which investigate the ability of undergraduates to deduce and formulate a classification rule for three problem types. The performance of the subjects is described in terms of two quantitative measures—median number of cards exposed in experiment 1 and median time to solution in experiment 2. As the authors admit, however, the actual numerical values presented are rather misleading because subjects fail to achieve a solution. I cannot understand why the authors did not present detailed qualitative descriptions of the kinds of rules offered by the subjects in each task.
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SIMPSON, P. Comment. Nature 243, 102 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243102a0
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