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Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old by carbocation on Thursday May 09, 2013 @04:20PM (#5682705)
> "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.

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Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old by esmansf on Thursday May 09, 2013 @07:35PM (#5683645)
Assuming 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.
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Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old by ctdonath on Thursday May 09, 2013 @08:58PM (#5683920)
I did the ISEF as a kid (speech recognition on an original IBM PC). Seriously tough competition there.
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Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old by arbesfeld on Thursday May 09, 2013 @04:51PM (#5682870)
The "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)
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Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old by vacri on Thursday May 09, 2013 @07:46PM (#5683678)
"She didn't even win" assumes the other projects were shit, sight unseen. It's a pointless comment to either make or analyse.
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