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. 2020 Jul 3;11:678. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00678

TABLE 3.

Pattern of most likely response (evidence E) of each task under the condition of a student’s misconception (hypothesis H).

Hypothesis Decimal comparing misconceptions Task 1: 4.8 > 4.63 Task 2: 3.7 > 3.02 Task 3: 3.49 > 3.4
H1 Whole-number misconception (WN) Wrong Right Right
H2 Ignore-decimal-point misconception (ID) Wrong Wrong Right
H3 Shorter-is-larger misconception (SL) Right Right Wrong

The likelihood of the evidence indicated in the table isP(E|H) = 0.8.