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Alison Gopnik
Articles By Alison Gopnik
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Why Your 4-Year-Old Is As Smart as Nate Silver
And if kids are so smart, why are adults so stupid about statistics?
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Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire.
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What John Tierney Gets Wrong About Women Scientists
Understanding a new study about discrimination.
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Diagnosing the Digital Revolution
Why it's so hard to tell whether it's really changing us.
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How Weird Is Consciousness?
Scientists may not even be asking the right questions.
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To Drug or Not To Drug
Judith Warner misses the real questions about medicating children.
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Cells That Read Minds?
What the myth of mirror neurons gets wrong about the human brain.
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The Real Reason Children Love Fantasy
Kids aren't escapists, they're little scientists.
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