Simple test of logic produces surprising win for 4 and 5-year-olds over college students.
Preschoolers can outsmart college students because they are less biased and more flexible than adults, a new study finds.
The conclusion comes from research published in the journal,Cognition, which put 170 college undergrads up against 106 four and five-year-olds in a test of learning and reasoning (Lucas et al., 2014).