What is the hypothesis for testing prayer on school children?
Hypothesis. Does prayer benefit school children or not? Prayer in school is a hotbed political issue that raises problems with the separation of church and state. However, if a study was done as a science project, one could end-run the emotional tirades caused by religion. The Klingbeils contemplated what a hypothesis of quality prayer might do for children when they were most teachable. The hypothesis of testing children during their early school years paralleled with the Klingbeils’ findings that seeds, cells, and plants were the most amenable to changes in their growth patterns during specific early stages of their development. Since changes and measurements registered best in the early stages of plants, perhaps changes and measurements registered best when people are the most teachable as in the early stages in the development of children.
