I haven’t run an experiment in some time, and I’ve been missing it. Until recently. My almost-eight-year-old nephew had an assignment to do a science experiment, about which he could care less. To him, he just wants to play four-square with ever-changing and intangible rules that make him ever-the-winner, and he could frankly give a flying fortune about disinterested research.
Naturally, the concerned adults in the room got carried away with the tuitional idea of cause and consequence on their own, somewhat but not entirely independently of the young Padawan learner’s needs.