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Just tangentially, Scientific American has a piece this month that 
suggests that very young children use controlled experiments to learn 
about how things work. Given their natural propensity for doing 
simple, controlled experiments, the question was why school age 
children seem to lose the knack to evaluate such evidence.


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>Has anyone seen or know of any evaluation on programs like CSI? As you know
>there is an emphasis on presenting the evidence for science in our
>exhibitions and programs to over come misconceptions about science.
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>I am interested in knowing if the emphasis on evidence, as evidence for
>science, in these enormously popular television programs is having any
>effect on the public in increasing their appreciation for the role and
>importance of evidence in general. I would not be surprised if they do in
>terms of forensics but can viewers generalize?
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>Thanks and i will share any off-line responses.
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>Martin
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