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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (862)1/6/2001 10:10:47 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 59480
 
We had a very unfortunate experience with Science Fair last year. My son designed a really neat experiment to find out whether or not dogs can perceive colors. People will tell you that dogs are color blind but he did research and it just wasn't well-supported. So he designed an experiment where he put a doggie treat on five different colored plates and let our pet Golden Retriever into the room and kept track of which color she went to first. He did it a lot of different times changing the order of the colors, and she actually did show a statistically significant preference for yellow and blue.

He backed this up with some Japanese research which showed, using dog retinas from dog cadavers, that dogs probably could actually see blue and yellow.

Anyway, he got a blue ribbon at the school level but couldn't advance because it turned out that to do animal research there are a lot of restrictions that require constant supervision by a vet and not using a pet - even though this research was behavioural, and didn't involve any injury to the animal. His teacher was new and didn't know that the research didn't comply with the guidelines.

We were all heartbroken. I thought the work he did was great, but he's dropping it now and doing something with radiation emitted by TVs and computer monitors. Not at all original, but I guess original ideas don't come along that often.
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