Comment by ForHackernews

> Recent reports have claimed that most 7th graders are unable to independently derive the Pythagorean Theorem, however our analysis reveals that these apparent failures stem from experimental design choices rather than inherent student limitations.

When given access to Google and prompted to "tell me how to find the length of hypotenuse of a right triangle", a majority of middle-schoolers produced the correct Pythagorean Theorem, demonstrating intact reasoning capabilities when freed from the exhaustive comprehension requirement.