Fox asked me to include this snippet of conversation where he and his dad designed the great sleep experiment:

Fox: NICE DAD TAKES ME ROCK CLIMBING EVERY NIGHT TO TIRE MY BODY OUT
D: Ok, an interesting idea. Now how do we test it with the scientific method?
F: HYPOTHESIS IS ROCK CLIMBING EVERY NIGHT IS NEEDED FOR GOOD SLEEP
D: How do we test the hypothesis?
F: I AM THINKING WE TEST IT BY DOING TEN TRIALS
D: What does a trial entail?
F: A TRIAL IS I AM CLIMBING FOR ONE HOUR AT NIGHT
F: DATA COLLECTION OF HOW MANY MINUTES I SLEEP EACH NIGHT AFTER CLIMBING
D: Okay. But how will we determine how many minutes you sleep each night?
F: DAD HAS A TIMER
D: Ok, so now we have collected some data. What do we do with it?
F: AVERAGE OUT THE TIMES AND COMPARE TO CONTROL TIME
D: And what is the control time?
F: AVERAGE NOT CLIMBING SLEEP TIME
D: How many days should we not climb
F: TEN SO IT IS SAME
D: Ok, that sounds good to me. Is there anything else that we're missing?
F: NO I AM THINKING IT IS GOOD EXPERIMENT
D: Ok, then we will give it a try sometime
F: I AM NOT ABLE TO CLIMB AT ALL FOR TEN DAYS?
D: How can we get that data?
F: I BE SAD TO NOT CLIMB FOR SO LONG
D: Well, you could change the number of days that you don't climb. But then you should also change the number of days that you climb as well
F: OK I AM THINKING TEN IS GOOD I AM OK SLEEP EXPERIMENT IS IMPORTANT
D: Alright then, sounds like a pln
F: OK LEARNING IS A FUN THING
Hi Fox. I also find sleeping very hard. It's great that you go climbing with your dad, and I especially love that you're thinking about experiments to show what works best for your body! I'm going to spend some time thinking about similar experiments to do for myself. Thanks for writing this blog!
ReplyDeleteHI CARRIE THANKS FOR KIND WORDS. ALWAYS APPRECIATE WHEN PEOPLE LIKE MY BLOG. HOPE YOU ARE ABLE TO FIND WAY TO SLEEP. FROM FOX
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