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Alicorn comments on Open Thread: April 2010 - Less Wrong
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The probability of magic should make any effort on testing the hypothesis unjustified. Testing theories no matter how improbable is generally incorrect dogma. (One should distinguish improbable from silly though.)
You have not taken into account that testing magical hypotheses may be categorized as "play" and pay its rent on time and effort accordingly.
Then this activity shouldn't be rationalized as being the right decision specifically for the reasons associated with the topic of rationality. For example, the father dismissing the suggestion to test the hypothesis is correct, given that the mere activity of testing it doesn't present him with valuable experience.
You've just taken the conclusion presented in the story, and wrote above it a clever explanation that contradicts the spirit of the story.