An important finding of the Kuhn and Pease (2008) earthquake forecaster training program was that skills in isolating and controlling variables, collecting appropriate data, and explaining and justifying their hypotheses based on the evidence were __________.
A. difficult to teach until children reached the seventh grade
B. easily learned by children by the end of one year of training
C. developed more fully in children trained from fourth through sixth grade than children who were new to the forecasting problems in the seventh grade
D. not easily generalized to other types of problems such as using evidence to forecast avalanches
Answer: C
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