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Bryant and Trabasso1 suggested that Piaget was wrong when he claimed that children below about 6 yr of age are incapable of making transitive inferences of quantity.
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DE BOYSSON-BARDIES, B., O'REGAN, K. What Children Do in Spite of Adults' Hypotheses. Nature 246, 531–534 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246531b0
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