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Swiss Psychologist Bärbel Inhelder suggests some translations. For example, a five-year-old thinks that a tall glass contains more water than a flat bowl. Shown that glass and bowl contain equal amounts, he is learning the principle of the invariance of quantities. In fact, a grade school teacher with a roulette wheel may turn out students more skilled in probabilistic reasoning than a college professor with a course in statistics...
...black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak to stand or even crawl. The sight was a shocker in itself, but the real shocker came with identification. The pathetic little creature was Farmer Steenbock's own granddaughter, eight-year-old Bärbel Süfke, youngest child of his twice-married, 40-year-old daughter Rosa. On questioning, Rosa Süfke claimed that she had hid the child soon after birth because she feared it was an idiot and health officials might take it away. Grandfather Steenbock insisted that...