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> "Walter Chien, a cardiac electrophysiologist, helped his daughter coordinate the patient testing." Maybe this is why she didn't win first place? At any rate,
by carbocation 13y ago
> "Walter Chien, a cardiac electrophysiologist, helped his daughter coordinate the patient testing."
Maybe this is why she didn't win first place? At any rate, if this finding holds up, this is a serious problem.
Edit: "the project was beat out for the top spot by work on electromagnetics and on the effect of punctuation mark placement in keyboards on carpal tunnel syndrome."
So I guess she's just up against really stiff competition.
- arbesfeld 13y agoThe "she didn't win first place" is hardly a surprise when you consider the absurd subjectivity of "science fairs." (ie. different judges for each project, different criteria)
- vacri 13y ago"She didn't even win" assumes the other projects were shit, sight unseen. It's a pointless comment to either make or analyse.
- esmansf 13y agoAssuming that she was competing for the Intel Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), as a former judge, I can say that her project has a major red flag. One of the disqualification criteria applied to projects is to examine if an Institutional Review Board (IRB) properly vetted her project and approved experimention on human subjects. From my perspective, if her paperwork was anything less than pristine, signed, and notarized, I could not imagine a judging committee electing it to first place.
- ctdonath 13y agoI did the ISEF as a kid (speech recognition on an original IBM PC). Seriously tough competition there.