<div dir="ltr">Hi, avoiders of beautiful sunny days.<div><br></div><div>Looking at the 2016 ITI (IT:Informatics) course, and the hypotheses that students may choose to research inevitably led me to <a href="http://improbable.com">improbable.com</a> - home of the Ig Nobel Prize.</div><div><br></div><div>There, students can judiciously find hypotheses of prize winners such as:</div><div><br></div><div><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">“<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">People who habitually stay up late are, on average, more
self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who
habitually arise early in the morning.</span>”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">“Is it <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat</span>?”
and “Do cat bites cause human depression?”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">“That when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their
body axis with Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines</span>.”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">“That <span style="color:black">when dung beetles get lost, they
can</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:7.5pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></span><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">navigate their way home by looking at the Milky
Way.”</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">“That the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely it is that
the cow will soon stand up</span>.”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">“Does leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller</span>?”</li>
</ul><div>On a related note, when the new SAT kicks in, we might want to band together and collate student hypotheses in a central location. This might</div><div><br></div><div>1) give teachers ideas for potential types of research hypotheses</div><div>2) alert teachers if kids start sharing or selling hypotheses and data. I can foresee a booming underground industry arising like that.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I accept NO kickback or consideration from any commercial organisation</i></div><div><i>and I'll give a <b>delicious Double MacKing Burger</b> (and small fries) to anyone who can prove otherwise.</i></div><div><br></div><div><div>I, Mark Kelly, am entirely responsible for the rambling verbiage I spew forth.</div><div>Have I offended anyone with this post? I would not be surprised.</div><div>If offended, please whinge to me at the email address above. </div><div>Please leave poor Kevork alone. It is not his fault.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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