Science Fair Project

Little One has aspired to participate in the Science Fair for years. She has had ideas, but never the initiative to follow through, despite her dear Nana's careful prodding.



This year a project was required.



We have books on Science Fair projects, refer to Dear Nana above, and she looked through for inspiration. One project appealed to her: showing movie clips to subjects and record how often they blink according to various emotions indicated in the movies.



She intended to perform this very project until the grading matrix came home and indicated "originality" counted as a large portion of the project.



She adapted the experiement to a similar one: have subjects listen to clips of different genres of music, and rate their liking of the various clips. Record their blink rates as they listen and see if they blink more or less for music they like or dislike.



Her hypothesis was that they would blink less for songs they liked. The results showed that they blinked less for songs they rated as medium -- neither liked nor disliked. We found out later you get extra points if your hypothesis is wrong.





We found out last night she placed 2nd. Her gf got first. CONGRATULATIONS LITTLE ONE!