To find out the true effects of Ritalin of AD/HD and student achievement, an extensive experiment could be done. This experiment would involve a large number of kids all in the age range of 11-13, an area where parents begin to worry about their children. All of these children would have been diagnosed with AD/HD by the same doctor, using the same criteria for each one. This is important because the criteria for diagnosing AD/HD have been disputed.

These children, half boys, half girls, would be given exactly the same food, environment, and teaching. This similarity of lifestyle would be put in place to eliminate other possible variables. First, these children would be monitored in without medicine so that observations later in the experiment would have something to be compared and contrasted with.

The only difference would be that...