When I was younger, maybe 4 or 5, I remember riding in the car and wondering about the how the lock and the door handle worked. Specifically, I wondered if I could open the door from the inside even if it were locked. I understood that the door needed to be unlocked in order to open the door from the outside of the car, but what about from inside the car?
So I designed an experiment--complete with hypothesis. And then I tested it.
Turns out my hypothesis was wrong. In that particular car, the car door would, and did, open from the inside, even when locked.
Did you remember that I said I was *riding* in the car as all that went on? Fortunately there was someone sitting not too far away (and not driving) who could help get the door closed tightly and safely. It was about then that it occurred to me that it might have been better for me to perform this experiment when the car was parked.
5 comments:
LOL! A mini scientist! Thank goodness for experimental oversight, eh! I'm glad you didn't fall out after disproving your hypothesis!
Cool science experiment! I too am glad you did not fall out. Maybe you should have gotten your evperimant approved by and adult, but I might not have been as exciting then!
I agree with Taffy. You should have submitted for IRB approval. Now you won't be able to publish your findings. But you're not dead, and that's always a good outcome.
My big question is whether you got any grant money for that particular experiment.
You crack me up! That was almost like a deep thoughts quote!
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