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If the goal is to minimize the effect of "outliers" (where outliers anomalously low placements), then they should just use the harmonic mean, which greatly minimizes the effect of "low" scores (such as placing 20th) while greatly maximizing the effect of "high" scores ...

2010 KAAC Summer Camp Results MATH 1. Chris Fugate – Boyd County High School 2. Jordan Keeton – Russell Independent High School 3. Duncan Wood – Mason County High School 4. Abishek Mahesh – St. Xavier High School 5. Nicholas Daniels - Russell Independent High School SCIENCE 1. Faiyad Mannan – Johnso...

My understanding for State Governor's Cup 2011 is that it will be downtown Lexington and will incoroporate Heritage Hall, the Radisson, and the Hyatt. I know that there has been a great deal of money poured into those hotels for renovation and the more central location makes sense. The main problem...

Does any one know why exactly state is moving to Lexington? The location is determined by bid and Lexington had the better bid for the next two years. Also, the Galt House would not "hold" the desired dates for the next two years. It'll be different in Lexington, especially the hotel situ...

Voice/video recording seems like it would cause more problems than it would help prevent (any time there was any dispute on anything, one of the coaches would want to "go to the tape"). Just one instance of that a match would slow it down significantly Well, the voice/video thing would on...

I do think they should reseed the teams based on points. It seemed pretty clear to me that we were not the worst runner-up, but we still drew Johnson Central. Hi Scott, One problem with seeding is the number of questions read in each match is not consistent because of the imposed match time. All mo...

A few years ago, I had a conversation with some of the people running KAAC and exchanged some emails with them. I was pretty impressed by their level of commitment and their understanding. They may be behind the curve now in terms of format and question quality, but I would bet that things will get...