That's What We Call 'Machine Learning' . . .

Today in lab meeting, Emily and Eden demonstrated a new task that measures children's ability to figure out probabilities based on limited data. The children interact with 'machines' that have different probabilities of spitting out balls with stickers in them. To run the task, Eden has to dress all in black, with long black gloves, and hide under a black tablecloth so that the kids can't see her manipulating the machines from the back. Ah, the indignities we suffer for the sake of science.