I feel awful for you guys and Pikeville.skkid11 wrote:Absurd.
No matter what happens one of the top 10 teams in the state is going to get knocked out the first night.
I feel awful for you guys and Pikeville.skkid11 wrote:Absurd.
What are you trying to say exactly? It sounds like you are saying that you wanted to keep the outlier and place him/her lower rather than use the modified, higher score.grayson77 wrote:
Off topic but...
Also, the new outlier system for the written composition scoring caused an individual from our school who had two firsts and two mid scores to place behind three individuals with three mid scores and a low score. I know the intentions are good, but it doesn't really work out that well.
The situation involved one of our students. who placed behind three students who each had one of their scores modified by an outlier, while our student's score did not have any scores ruled as outliers.Faiyad wrote:What are you trying to say exactly? It sounds like you are saying that you wanted to keep the outlier and place him/her lower rather than use the modified, higher score.grayson77 wrote:
Off topic but...
Also, the new outlier system for the written composition scoring caused an individual from our school who had two firsts and two mid scores to place behind three individuals with three mid scores and a low score. I know the intentions are good, but it doesn't really work out that well.
grayson77 wrote:About the outlier system, I am saying that the intentions are good, but the system does not work as it is intended.
For example...
A student who had the following ranks 1st, 2nd, 4th, 9th would finish above a student ranked 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th.
Because the 9th would qualify as an outlier and the 8th would not.
Does that make sense?
The take the subscores that are more than twice as high as any other score and average that subscore with the average of the other three subscores.skkid11 wrote: I'm not familiar with this system. How exactly does this work? Do they eliminate any sub scores from total score calculation that are distant from other sub scores? I'm not sure I see the logic behind this system. It would seem to me that the flat out simplest, and best way to calculate a comp score would be to just average all the sub scores and be done with it.
SirT wrote: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 (such as placing 1st).
Danville is hosting the middle school NAQT set on April 2nd and IS-100 on April 16th.Hilltopper22 wrote:To switch gears a bit...
WKU is hosting the College Heights Academic Tournament on March 26th, and UofL is hosting the Kentucky NAQT Championship on April 23rd. Are there any other good quizbowl tournaments planned?
The harmonic mean would be something to look at but it actually could backfire.SirT wrote: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 (such as placing 1st).
Oh Jack, always with the QQ. ;P.jackatthedisco wrote:Any particular reason why for the past four years, Pikeville has been on the same side of the bracket as Dunbar?
yea, that's fair.
Exceptionally intuitive bracketing systemsjackatthedisco wrote:Any particular reason why for the past four years, Pikeville has been on the same side of the bracket as Dunbar?
yea, that's fair.
Were you one of the writers?Hilltopper22 wrote: I especially noted some of the Social Studies questions as being adequately well written and pyramidal.
No, but since I know more about Social Studies than other subjects I can assess them more easily. I should have probably worded my sentence better anyway.Kahloon wrote:Were you one of the writers?Hilltopper22 wrote: I especially noted some of the Social Studies questions as being adequately well written and pyramidal.
I agree with this wholeheartedly.grayson77 wrote:The format is very outdated and should be changed again.
I don't really see the point of single elimination in any quizbowl related event...