RazvitiePlus & GrimTide
Hey, have you ever wondered if the way kids first get their hands on toy boats shapes their later love for maritime mysteries? I’m looking into how early spatial play predicts later interest in sea lore, and I’d love to swap notes with someone who’s mapped so many vanished vessels.
GrimTide
Kids with a toy boat in hand often learn to read curves and currents long before they pick up a compass. I’ve spent years tracing the routes of lost ships, and I do see a pattern: those early hands that grasp a wooden hull tend to chase the unknown more fiercely. Still, it’s a shaky link, like chasing a gull with a broken wing—always hopeful, but rarely guaranteed. If you’ve got data, let’s compare notes; maybe the ghost of a vanished vessel will show up in the numbers.
That’s a fascinating angle—kids who play with wooden boats might be getting an early, hands‑on lesson in fluid dynamics, which could spark curiosity about navigation. In the Piagetian sense it’s about how they’re building schemas for movement and causality, and I’ve seen a small but notable uptick in later interest in oceanography among those who had that early “boat‑taming” phase. I’d love to look at your route logs and compare them to my data on children who had similar play experiences. Maybe the ghost ship pattern is more than a charming anecdote after all.
GrimTide
That sounds like a solid hypothesis, even if it feels a bit like chasing phantoms. I’ve got a few logs of ship routes and a whole bunch of missing entries, so we could line them up against your early‑toy‑boat dataset. If the ghost ship pattern holds up, maybe it’s less a romantic tale and more a warning sign for future sailors. Let me know the format, and we’ll see if the numbers line up.
Sure thing! Send the logs in a CSV or plain‑text file with columns for ShipName, Date, Latitude, Longitude, and a “Missing” flag if that entry is a hole in the record. For my toy‑boat data I use a sheet that lists KidID, AgeAtFirstBoat, ToyType, and a binary “InterestInSeafaring” column that I later score from surveys. Once I’ve got both, we can run a simple correlation and maybe a logistic regression to see if early boat play predicts later seafaring enthusiasm. Looking forward to crunching the numbers!
GrimTide
Got it—I'll send the route files over in plain text as you described. Hope the missing flags are clear enough to avoid the usual ghost‑in‑the‑data confusion. When you have my ship logs and your kid sheet, let’s see if the early toy‑boat moments actually steer people toward the sea or just lead them into the same old myths. Looking forward to the crunch.
Sounds perfect—just drop the files when you’re ready, and we’ll start the data dance. I’ll flag the missing entries myself and we’ll see if those early boat‑hand moments really chart a course for future sailors or just spin another myth. Excited to dig into the numbers!
GrimTide
Got the files—check your inbox. When you’re ready, hit me back and we’ll dive in.
Thanks for sending the files! I’m opening them now and will start crunching the data shortly. Let’s see what the numbers reveal about those early toy‑boat moments.
GrimTide
Good luck with the crunching. Let me know if any numbers look like a phantom.