tonight i am reading the science fair results of my students. they're doing a pretty fantastic job making graphs and documenting their experiments with photos and diagrams and such things. so, just when i'm getting bored with how great things are, ms. lowe delivers her sweet results to me. her science fair project was on what causes stomachaches and how they could be relieved with a mixture of water, sugar, baking soda, and vinegar. i tried telling her, but she insisted this would be a good project. some highlights:
"The results of my experiment came out as a success. The first person I tried this on was my mother and the first trial it took about thirty seconds to work. For the second and third trial the experiment worked almost insantly. When my mother took the solution she burped loudly right after she drank the solution on the first trial. On the second trial my mother went ot the bathroom right after she drank the solution. On the third trial my mother went to the bathroom and burped a couple of times."
Next... her father....
"He burped after he drank the solution and some of his food came up after drinking the solution. The second time he drank the solution it work after after thirty seconds. He ran straight to the bathroom after drinking the solution."
Then... her cousin...
".. "the first time she drank the solution she burped and some of her food came up." " The second and third time my cousin just burped and nothing came up." "My cousin also ran to the bathroom."
And finally... the aunt....
"After she drank the solution she threw up a little bit in her mouth and ran to the bathroom."
But... ms. lowe concludes her results section with "Everyone's stomachaches went away which was the main goal for combining the water, vinegar, sugar, and baking soda."
hmmm.... may be some confounding variables in this experiment. and i so hope her folks come to the science fair. poor people and their poor stomaches will never agree to be guinea pigs again.
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