Having worked hard in today’s class to set up the question ‘Do worms impair kids school performance’, and the correlational data, AND then explaining why correlations are ambiguous evidence for causation – I completely forgot to tell the students the punch line: Because the recent science has been done well, we know the answer to the question I posed. Which I will explain next time.
What did Randy Olson say – Tantalize, complicate, then resolve. No wonder I am not teaching at a film school.
Bozo. Mind you, I was teaching from two computers, five programs and seven windows. Phew.
Don’t feel bad – I just assumed you were trying to keep up on the edge of our seats until next class!
I’m really looking forward to hearing the answer, but in the meantime, I’ve still been thinking about the question and wondering….so in that sense, the delay is fine, because it has given me more time to consider all possible explanations.