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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Clod you are doing science on your child, period. You are using the scientific method: you're investigating to form a hypothesis, you're testing your hypothesis with experiment, you're analyzing the results.
You're only testing with a sample size of one, so your findings only apply to one, but they can provide new questions for new hypotheses for a broader population.
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And while I'll admit I'm probably more rigorous than most (oh,
ow, my arm hurts bending all the way around like that to reach my back...) I would submit that many, many parents out there do the same thing with their children, carefully monitoring the results of their day-to-day activities--if for no other reason than to make our own lives easier. Nobody knows a kid like his mom, and if generation after generation of mothers say that sugar makes their kid hyperactive and poorly behaved... well, I know I'm not imagining what I see in
my kid, so I'm inclined to take their word for it when it comes to their kids, too.