03-04-2013, 12:15 AM
(03-03-2013, 11:36 PM)rie Wrote: There was a study done in the UK to test magical thinking in making judgments about causation of a phenomenon and 4-6 year olds accepted magical thinking to explain the phenomenon, while 9 year olds did not. Then they tested adults (18-25 year olds) and found that they were prone to using magical thinking to explain a phenomenon. So their conclusion was, in this modern industrialized world, magical thinking still persist but is disguised to fit scientific paradigm.Well it's cute when it's coming from a 4-6 year old.
But there are actually adults here that "know" car lights and stars must be UFOs and that NASA is hiding giant space ships detected by the SOHO satellites.