What happen when a child of digital age encountered an old relic such as an analog video camera? He didn't know that it's disastrous to tape over a recording. The concept that once you tapped over, the previous recording is gone forever, was foreign to him. You see, with a digital video camera, the new video clip is never recorded over old ones. A new file is always created until the disk is full. Even then, the camera will not just record over.
After taping a 2 hours of IQ testing session with a teenager, I rewound the tape and left it unattended nearby to watch the news. Suddenly I heard my 11-year-old son shouted, I took a shot of you eating chips and watching TV mommy. The bottom of my stomach just dropped. I knew he tapped over my recording session. I lost some 10 seconds the rapport building part of the IQ test. It took me a while to explain to my son that he had almost obliterated my work. Of course once he understood what could have happened, he was very sorry.
I guess, I'll have to explain to my lecturers that my son ate my homework. A small part, but nevertheless, it's the critical part of IQ testing: gaining the cooperation of the client through rapport building. I hope the penalty will not be severe.
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