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How A Four-Year-Old Kicked My Butt at Blickets

Posted on April 23, 2013 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

In the clip above, filmed in the lab of University of California, Berkeley, cognitive psychologist Alison Gopnik, a particularly charming 4-year-old girl named Esther is playing a game that Gopnik made up. The game is called Blickets. The goal is to figure out which of the clay figures are blickets, as indicated by which clay […]

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