Re: Current Events

• From: grapesmoker <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:46:42 -0000
• Message-ID: <arjupi+28fm_at_...>

I totally disagree with this. If you're knowledgeable about science 
you can extract material from science journals to write questions 
on. For example, not too long ago, I wrote a question to which the 
answer was "the second law of thermodynamics" but several clues came 
from recent discoveries published in scientific journals. So just 
because it's in a journal doesn't mean it's obscure or completely 
inaccessible. Writing current events questions to fulfill a science 
distribution is sketchy at best, though, and editors should crack 
down on that sort of stuff.

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "Stephen Webb" <sdwebb91984_at_y...> wrote:
> The problem with writing current events science questions is there 
> are two types:
> 
> *The stuff that appears on CNN
> 
> or
> 
> *Stuff in recent scientific papers that don't make CNN because the 
> average person on the street doesn't know enough about group 
theory 
> and Clifford algebras or quantum mechanics to understand it, or 
care 
> about it.
> 
> If you lean to the former, you end up with endless Quaoar 
questions, 
> but if you lean to the later unless people are totally and 
completely 
> up on their science journals and read every article, they won't be 
> answered.
> 
> Just my two cents,
> Stephen