Question: Do you test your experiments on kids or adults?

Nancy Carlisle answered on 25 Jun 2014:

I do my experiments on college students mostly. That is really just for convenience sake! But you can draw strong conclusions from data from college students, even if they aren’t typical of the average adult. Here’s why: If you are trying to disprove a hypothesis (typically what we do in science), then if you disprove it in one group, that means that it doesn’t hold in ALL groups. So, even if you test only one group, you can make some pretty strong scientific progress!