Repeated practice and feedback have minimal impact on the bat-and-ball problem
Résumé
The bat-and-ball problem is notorious for cueing a heuristic response that conflicts with logic. In a series of experiments where participants solved bat-and-ball items in a two-response paradigm, we investigated whether learning to avoid this bias was possible using repetition or minimal feedback, along with the nature of any potential learning. Although most participants stayed biased, some of them were able to overcome their initial bias and solve the conflict items seemingly intuitively while also benefitting from feedback.