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Table 1 Number of participants per pattern of performance in Experiment 1

From: Hands-on experience can lead to systematic mistakes: A study on adults’ understanding of sinking objects

Condition:

Correct (or eventually correct)

Incorrect (or eventually incorrect)

Random (or eventually random)

Random to correct

Incorrect to correct

Correct

Random to incorrect

Correct to incorrect

Incorrect

Random

Incorrect to random

Correct to random

Real objects

0

1

1

0

3

18

2

3

0

Static images

1

0

3

2

0

12

7

0

0

  1. A binomial-probability test was carried out to classify a person’s performance on trials for which the faster object in a pair was small and light (see Appendix C for details)