In a recent letter to the editor (2016 Phys. Educ . 51 066503), Schumayer and Scott raised concerns
about one of the novel situations presented in our article titled ‘Students’ analogical reasoning in
novel situations: theory-like misconceptions or p-prims?’ (2016 Phys. Educ . 51 044003). We greatly
appreciate their interest in our study and in this reply we address the concerns raised.