this community can easy substantiate or refute this claim. if you wish to participate, continue reading:

null hypothesis: child at purple flower increases rate of collectibles.
vs.
alternate hypothesis: child at purple flower does not affect rate of collectibles.

condition #1: for 15 minutes, continue to place child at purple flower and count the number of collectibles that appear.
condition #2: for 15 minutes, keep children away from purple flower and count the number of collectibles.

post your results in a response (how many collectibles appeared during each 15 minute period). After we have a statistically significant number of responses, we can decide which hypothesis is more likely to be true.