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Gagliardi, Annie; Feldman, Naomi H.; Lidz, Jeffrey – Cognitive Science, 2017
Children acquiring languages with noun classes (grammatical gender) have ample statistical information available that characterizes the distribution of nouns into these classes, but their use of this information to classify novel nouns differs from the predictions made by an optimal Bayesian classifier. We use rational analysis to investigate the…
Descriptors: Children, Statistics, Learning, Bayesian Statistics
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Adkins, Michael; Noyes, Andrew – British Educational Research Journal, 2016
In the late 1990s, the economic return to Advanced level (A-level) mathematics was examined. The analysis was based upon a series of log-linear models of earnings in the 1958 National Child Development Survey (NCDS) and the National Survey of 1980 Graduates and Diplomates. The core finding was that A-level mathematics had a unique earnings premium…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Relevance (Education), High Schools, Secondary School Mathematics