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Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:41 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Using clustering to look at college quizbowl circuits
Replies: 1
Views: 1605

Re: Using clustering to look at college quizbowl circuits

Neat! this is pretty interesting, I'm surprised that UT and CO circuits cluster with the PNW circuit and the Idaho circuit and not the KS/OK circuit (and that the Idaho circuit doesn't extend into WY/MT/the Dakotas)
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Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:53 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Myths about Westphalia
Replies: 8
Views: 7491

Re: Myths about Westphalia

Sima Guang Hater wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:08 am Just wanted to post this, having seen it today and remembering this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY
Ah, but Luxembourg would be vastly improved if it had more pickled herring in it.
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Sat Oct 30, 2021 11:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fictional streets used multiple times
Replies: 3
Views: 625

Re: Fictional streets used multiple times

Sure, I suppose that does count. I guess it's all a judgment call just because, any time an author puts effort into building a world of some kind, people will inevitably say that one book is a sequel of the other or somesuch. In this case, while the street is fictional, the city of Tunis is very mu...
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Tue Aug 10, 2021 12:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The majority of high school tossups on the Mali Empire are terrible.
Replies: 22
Views: 9538

Re: The majority of high school tossups on the Mali Empire are terrible.

I'm not particularly well-read on the archaeology here either, admittedly, but outside of an occasional lead-in that is probably a bridge too far at this level. Also, I kinda get the sense that most of what's "well-known in the public Western eye" about African archaeology is pretty cente...
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Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16698

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

RE: Anais Nin's diaries, could the question just be reworded by dropping "erotic" in the question (i.e. "Anais Nin's erotic ones of these")? That would seem to disambiguate what you want nicely,
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Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:12 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
Replies: 8
Views: 4237

Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art

I am glad that this is happening in time for my temporary crawl out of retirement.
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Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Replies: 100
Views: 7508

Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!

Auks Ran Ova wrote:I got a copy of the Oxford History of Art's Art in China from Doug Graebner. Thanks Doug!
Thanks! I hope you like it.
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Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Replies: 100
Views: 7508

Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!

Just got a mystery copy of At Least we Can Apologize , which I assume is from one of you unless there is some secret club dedicated to randomly mailing people avant-garde Korean novels. This was from me. I read a review where it sounded interesting. Hopefully it will be enjoyable and keep you out i...
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Sat Dec 19, 2015 6:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Replies: 100
Views: 7508

Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!

Just got a mystery copy of At Least we Can Apologize, which I assume is from one of you unless there is some secret club dedicated to randomly mailing people avant-garde Korean novels.
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Thu Nov 19, 2015 4:59 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Replies: 100
Views: 7508

Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - 11/29 Deadline

1. [email protected]
2. Books, surprise me please.
3. A scarf; I could use one or two more.
4. A poster of some kind, preferably of art.
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Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:11 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15)
Replies: 67
Views: 32662

Re: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15)

Kouign Amann wrote:If anyone is looking to fill a spot in a hotel room for Saturday night, let me know, and I'll gladly pay my share.
Same here.
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Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 4526

Re: Discussion Thread

Fair enough. And I still don't know if the word "mosaic" was part of the required answer line. In any case, you knew it first! Yea, I'd only ever heard it called the Alexander Mosaic before-maybe this is one of those " what people put down in the captions" versus "what it g...
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Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: "This Things I Believe"
Replies: 44
Views: 20035

Re: "This Things I Believe"

If TDs had to resolve every protest that gets lodged irrespective of whether it'd affect the outcome of a game, and players knew this to be true, control rooms would be utterly swamped with frivolous and score-padding protests, and would have to waste a lot of effort looking into all kinds of issue...
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Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open Weekend Length
Replies: 16
Views: 7064

Re: Chicago Open Weekend Length

(or a weekend in which lots of various tournaments are played). I still like my idea of a sort of "three-appetizer plate" of various side events, although this would obviously only work if the subjects were well-balanced. Another possibility would be to anchor the weekend with a shorter e...
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Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:55 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: questions about Judaism
Replies: 15
Views: 8765

Re: questions about Judaism

Split from the 2015 CO thread --Mgmt. We should at some point have a thread about Judaism questions - perhaps this post which in no way related to CO will cause the admins to create one via thread split. As a frequent Religion editor/writer back in the day, I found Judaism questions extremely chall...
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Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: questions about Judaism
Replies: 15
Views: 8765

Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussion

Grammatical clarity aside, though, I was really impressed by this submission: it was actually a good high-level question on a Jewish holiday. Rather than just spitting out names of songs for leadins like run-of-the-mill Jewish holiday tossups, this one tested knowledge of liturgical customs, so it'...
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Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 21177

Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi

I suspect that from a representation standpoint, we might actually do better by focusing on queer representation within the quizbowl community. As I grew up, I remember being struck by 1: Just how many quizbowl players, and especially good quizbowl players were queer (in fact, it seems like we're d...
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Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:45 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 21177

Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi

First, I don't think micropolitics has a role in quizbowl, insofar as quizbowl is accurately representing academic study of academic topics as they exist in the current academic world. (If quizbowl isn't being true to how much academic treatment certain topics receive, then that's something to be f...
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Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Delta Burke 2014 Set Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 19331

Re: Delta Burke 2014 Set Discussion

The buzz was not optimal because it came before a concrete, uniquely identifying clue. The question was not optimal because it encouraged buzzing before a concrete, uniquely identifying clue. Ideally, questions would be better and this situation would not occur. But in this particular instance, the...
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Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Resetting [pt. 5 of 6]: How We Treat Each Other
Replies: 40
Views: 21831

Re: Resetting [pt. 5 of 6]: How We Treat Each Other

I actually completely disagree with Will. The difference may by "only five years", but those are an important five years. It is because those five years are important that we must be especially careful in how we treat each other across gaps. I find that a lot of problems develop when high...
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Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:09 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Advice on Studying Fine Arts
Replies: 13
Views: 16133

Re: Advice on Studying Fine Arts

For high school, a good textbook should honestly cover most of your starting bases-Gardner's Art through the Ages or Janson's History of Art are both pretty standard. If you want more detailed studies of specific topics, the Pelican History of Art* or Oxford History of Art series is probably going t...
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Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:31 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Nonfiction Books in the Distribution
Replies: 4
Views: 3930

Re: Nonfiction Books in the Distrobution

So this question might have an obvious answer, but where do books like "The Columbian Exchange" by Alfred Crosby or books like "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" fit in the distribution. I am just wondering because I just finished reading the latter and thought both due to the mate...
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Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:59 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Resetting [pt. 2 of 6]: How Much Quizbowl Does a Man Need?
Replies: 24
Views: 14322

Re: Resetting [pt. 2 of 6]: How Much Quizbowl Does a Man Nee

So I've thought about this a little bit, and I have brainstormed some potential solutions, some or none of which may be useful: To the issue of "too many announced housewrites, too few played housewrites": having PACE set up a national "Independent Series" distribution network b...
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Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Resetting [pt. 6 of 6]: Lessons Worth Recording
Replies: 12
Views: 8708

Re: Resetting [pt. 6 of 6]: Lessons Worth Recording

Also-learn your way around a new city/campus/whatever really well the first time or two you go; if you play college quizbowl you'll probably wind up going to tournaments in the same places a bunch of times so once you know your way around Wherever U. and its environs fairly well said knowledge stays...
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Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:40 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College quizbowl payroll service
Replies: 17
Views: 8247

Re: College quizbowl payroll service

Out of honest curiosity, why wouldn't the logical outcome of this just be something like a quizbowl gemach? At least if the intent is to not have quizbowl money effectively flowing at the rate of the slowest team to pay registration or mirror fees(or perhaps the slowest school reimbursement office).
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Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: writing a charity trivia quiz
Replies: 6
Views: 753

Re: writing a charity trivia quiz

I've been in synagogues that would skew either way honestly(some that would pretty much not want to do anything _tooooo_ religious in a pub quiz and some where you could get away with asking which books of the tanakh have special cantillation or other detailed scripture/rabbinics/"name this hol...
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Tue Jun 09, 2015 5:54 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Accurate Timing during Tournaments
Replies: 22
Views: 11252

Re: Accurate Timing during Tournaments

So I've both played at a variety of tournaments, and moderated a couple, and have come across the same issue multiple times: a lack of accurate timing for answering tossups and bonuses. As far as I am aware, no tournament format (excluding Academic League) requires a clock to be used to determine t...
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Tue Jun 09, 2015 5:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
Replies: 28
Views: 17055

Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE

UPDATE: If there is interest, I will figure out how to host a mirror of VICO in DC on August 15th, 22nd, or 29th. It would have to have a field cap of like eight teams, unless one of the UMD players can get us rooms there or something. Please post here if you would be interested in that. If this so...
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Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:04 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: How hard would it be to start a team at my high school?
Replies: 11
Views: 9370

Re: How hard would it be to start a team at my high school?

One worthwhile piece of information which might help folks here answer this question, if you're willing to share, is where your high school is located -- there are many people on these boards who are active in organizing local, regional, and state circuits, and knowing which specific existing tourn...
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Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
Replies: 80
Views: 30013

Re: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler

"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?" It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23) Given the minimum dimensions of a sukkah and the requirement that at least part of the roof should be permeable to the rain*, this would seem rather difficult. *The oft-cited claim that one must be able...
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Fri Jun 05, 2015 7:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
Replies: 80
Views: 30013

Re: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler

"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?" It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23) Given the minimum dimensions of a sukkah and the requirement that at least part of the roof should be permeable to the rain*, this would seem rather difficult. *The oft-cited claim that one must be able...
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Fri May 29, 2015 1:18 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SNL Top 50 Sketches, 2010-2015
Replies: 5
Views: 539

Re: SNL Top 50 Sketches, 2010-2015

This inspired me to watch "The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders" and I was amused.
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Wed May 27, 2015 11:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Click Here to Become Sad
Replies: 59
Views: 34068

Re: Click Here to Become Sad

For most Canadians (or at least for Ontario, where most Canadian quizbowlers are from), anything before the First World War is consigned to middle school classes taken nearly a decade before their collegiate careers. Unless someone went out of their way to learn more about topics like Louis Riel, J...
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Tue May 19, 2015 2:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Click Here to Become Sad
Replies: 59
Views: 34068

Re: your official Canadian cavalry regiment discussion threa

So does someone actually have a good introductory book to Canadian history that is not A) awful whig history, B) duller than cottage cheese, or C) by Desmond Morton(which I have tried to read only to find it painfully, painfully boring)?
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Fri May 15, 2015 3:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
Replies: 77
Views: 31848

Re: two styles of writing: a close reading

I fail to see why "plebian secession" (a specific historical term with a well-defined meaning that seems to routinely come up in books on Roman history) is a confusing or ambiguous answer.
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Thu May 14, 2015 8:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
Replies: 77
Views: 31848

Re: two styles of writing: a close reading

I'm not sure what "studying academia" means Sorry - I typed that really fast as I was about to miss a 10:30 meeting. Pretty sure I meant to say something along the lines of "studying the sort of stuff one might expect to learn as a motivated student in whatever academic field, indepe...
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Thu May 14, 2015 1:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
Replies: 77
Views: 31848

Re: two styles of writing: a close reading

I'm not sure what "studying academia" means Sorry - I typed that really fast as I was about to miss a 10:30 meeting. Pretty sure I meant to say something along the lines of "studying the sort of stuff one might expect to learn as a motivated student in whatever academic field, indepe...
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Mon Apr 20, 2015 6:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
Replies: 227
Views: 110450

Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion

Also, the arbitrariness of this bolding is hilarious. "The Anxiety of Influence" is "noticeably difficult", but "pataphysics" isn't? Ditto for, e.g., "My Kinsman Major Molineux" v. "Elizabeth Loftus"--I literally cannot imagine a reasoned basis on w...
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Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2015 Regionals: Specific question requests and discussion
Replies: 49
Views: 22258

Re: 2015 Regionals: Specific question requests and discussio

Zero in linguistics: I indeed misheard this clue, sorry! [Sidebar: I'm sure this is a real thing in linguistics, but I learned the "to be" construction as "noun sentence"; I'm not sure anyone learning the language would learn this name for it—and I'm sure that's not a valid crit...
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Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: George Oppen at U. Maryland (21 Feb. 2015)
Replies: 51
Views: 42555

Re: George Oppen at U. Maryland (21 Feb. 2015)

Currently a free agent seeking a team barring unforseen circumstances.
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Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:58 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
Replies: 93
Views: 6674

Re: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:I bought a copy of my gift for myself as well (since it looked cool) and it arrived yesterday, so hopefully my Secret Santa gift will arrive soon.
Thanks for Payalisan's history of Armenia!
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Sat Dec 06, 2014 10:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Is copying answerlines also plagiarism?
Replies: 8
Views: 5449

Re: Is copying answerlines also plagiarism?

(Note: for NAQT questions, please don't bother listing the 50 names of Marduk.) -Seth You do realize it is now my mission to write a question that finds a way to require listing the 50 names of Marduk, right? :P There was a question in CO 2013 on "Names of Marduk", which is probably the c...
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Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
Replies: 93
Views: 6674

Re: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED

My gift is brought and shipped; it should arrive at its destination in the next week or two.
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Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: What Happens to DC-Area Quizbowl Next Year?
Replies: 158
Views: 98859

Re: What Happens to DC-Area Quizbowl Next Year?

Walt Whitman . Given that Shantanu and his teammates won NSC and the team was active regionally and went to at least one national fairly consistently and perfromed at least somewhat well from 2006-12(I was on the team for a considerable part of these years), they certainly have a pretty extensive q...
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Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:22 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Replies: 105
Views: 67584

Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)

Given that it is reasonable to assume that most students at Harvard own computers Reasonable. and that at least a few tournament attendees probably had brought laptops with them, wouldn't it have made more sense to see if someone could loan her a laptop for the duration of the tournament Not so muc...
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Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Replies: 105
Views: 67584

Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)

I wasn't at this tournament and can't comment on the circumstances that resulted in a random parent reading in a room and repeatedly reading the wrong packet, but I am amazed that Harvard thought, in 2014, that it was a good idea to just give staffers all the packets and trust them to do the right ...
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Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:51 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
Replies: 93
Views: 6674

Re: SMV 2014: press x to send and receive presents

Name: Douglas Graebner email: dgraebner1@gmail.com Requests: 1. A book, preferably on art history, mesoamerica, ancient history, or late antiquity. 2. A nice poster 3. A surprise, if you happen to be someone who knows me enough to think of something else I might like. Holiday story: I am torn betwee...
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Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Suzhou, China
Replies: 10
Views: 1140

Re: Suzhou, China

1. Take care of your belongings. Thieves are widespread and are shameless in their pursuit of your wallet. To put this in perspective: My grandmother was robbed while praying in church. In particular, I'd be careful around beggars. Many often fake injuries to attract unwary victims. I'm sure there'...
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Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: General Discussion (Maryland Spring 2014)
Replies: 27
Views: 6531

Re: General Discussion

Becoming hyperfocused on minute PPB differences is just plain silly; 23.5 to 21.5 is...not quite "random fluctuation" but certainly a small enough change that it doesn't really tell you a lot about how hard a set was that just looking over the set and noting "This seems really hard an...