• Question: Do you think you would involve people from my school with your investigations?

    Asked by loppylolly10 to Edd on 16 Jun 2011.
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      Edward Codling answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Hi loppylolly

      We certainly could – one of the things I am interested in studying is animal group behaviour – and this includes human crowds (humans are animals after all!)

      We have done some experiments with school students and the general public and I have some of the details on my website: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ecodling/EACresearch_groupshumancrowds.htm

      One of the problems with doing this experiment is that we need large groups of people to volunteer to take part! I plan to do some more experiments at Essex with local school children if I win the I’m a Scientist prize, but we are always looking for other people to take part as well!

      I am sure we could do some similar experiments at your school if you can get your classmates interested and if your teacher wants to invite me along!
      🙂

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