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Youth researches

In January, the Berlin schoolgirl Charlotte Schneider interviewed visitors to the museum in the experimental field as part of her research for the state competition JugendForscht. By means of the survey, she wanted to find out which musical appliance of birdsong could also have an effect on humans and thus provide a convergent basis for the construction of songs. During the three weeks in which a different bird song was recorded each time, a total of 550 visitors threw a completed postcard into an opinion box placed next to the loudspeaker, an exhibition element that could be used flexibly for surveys.

This is an impressive number for such a short survey time and shows on the one hand that the visitors like to participate in research as informants and on the other hand that the format of the opinion boxes is a suitable instrument and the experimental field a suitable place for research questions where a large sample is required. The work was awarded first prize in biology in the Berlin South state competition.