Hypothesis + Experiment + Conclusion = Science

[cdave]

1) Hypothesis: You should chew your food thirty times before swallowing.
Experiment:
Split a bottle of sink de-clogger between 4 glasses, and cut a steak into bite sized chunks and split between 4 bags.
i) Empty 1 bag into a glass.
ii) Hit 1 bag with a tenderiser 10 times before emptying it into a glass.
iii) Hit 1 bag with a tenderiser 30 times before emptying it into a glass.
vi) Hit 1 bag with a tenderiser 50 times before emptying it into a glass.
After 4 hours sieve and weigh the remaining solids.
Expected Results:
i) Lots left.
ii) Some left.
iii) Little left.
iv) Not too different from iii)

2) Hypothesis: People can't divine for metal.
Experiment:
Stolen from Dawkins.
Experimenter 1 places a metal object under a small fraction of a number of buckets, records this, and leaves.
Experimenter 2, without meeting Experimenter 1 leads the diviner into the room, and lets them test each bucket with divining sticks, and records the result.
The experimenters results are compared.
Expected results:
The number of buckets whose contents are correctly identified is not significantly higher than would be expected if the selection was at random (this number to be determined before the experiment starts).

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Comments

[andrewducker]

Your expected results for (2) don't line up with your hypothesis...

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what is being tested in experiment 1 - is the idea that chewing 30 times allows the food to be digested faster, or that you are less likely to choke on it? And why is it beneficial that your food is digested faster?

If you're trying to simulate the digestive juices of the stomach I might be able to provide something a bit more like it than sink de-clogger.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

If you ever do the food experiment, just don't do it in front of me. I have a phobia about spit.