Underwood's Philosophical Framework.

Observation:
It appears that my parents secretly think their daughter is a good-for-nothing slacker who does not study and spends all her time on the internet blogging and MSN-ing till 3-4 a.m.

Model:
This appears to be true because this is what happens in Nature...and also the fact that my mother has woken up countless times at intervals of 60 minutes throughout the night to find her daughter's face still illuminated by the light given off by the Dell PC.

Hypothesis:
There is an inverse relationship between the amount of time spent on the internet and the quality of grades being churned out.

Null Hypothesis:
There is no relationship between the amount of time spent on the internet and the quality of grades being churned out... the grades are always good. regardless.

Experimental design:
1. Allow usage of internet for 5 hours straight.
2. After 5 hours, answer a golden question.
3. Golden question: What is the square root of negative (-) one?

Results:
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if i could make it any bigger, i would.

Discussion:
Considering that my first encounter with the internet was when i was 12 years of age and assume that i spend an average of 15 hours a week on the internet (taking into account of my time spent in OBS, on field trips, when the computer breaks down on me, holidays in Bali, Langkawi and etc) therefore my total time spent on the internet thus far:

Time spent on internet
= Years of internet-contact x 52 weeks x 15 hours
= 8 x 52 x 15
= 6240 hours.

Therefore with 6240 hours of internet usage under my belt (given a standard error of mean of +/-3 hours a week) and the fact that i can still remember the answer to a math question that i had learnt when i was 16 AND that i've not had any contact with complex numbers (real or imaginary) since i was 19, i'd say i'm on pretty good ground.

Conclusion:
The probability of me answering the Golden Question correctly is greater than 0.05. The null hypothesis is accepted.