Roger wrote: There were exactly 4 science TUs/bonuses per packet, and each packet had exactly 1 TU/bonus each on physics, chemistry, and biology (plus one "miscellaneous" comprised of silly things like geology, astronomy, scientists, etc.). Thus, the skew makes sense when you realize it's half the science distribution. This probably seems out of whack because most tournaments tend to be erroneously physics-heavy and lack a set distribution. ---- Perhaps I misspoke when I mentioned biology, because we were missing our resident biology guy. More of what I take issue with was the distribution of the chemistry questions. I most certainly have a biased view of the matter, but it seemed an awful lot of the questions were organic chemistry. My original comment stemmed mostly from the editing of our packet, where my chem bonus was replaced by a biochem bonus. Now it may be that biochem is closer to chemistry than biology, but it seemed a little odd to me given that our biology question remained intact. It really seems to me like I'm splitting hairs here, since I do believe Roger did a fine job as editor. Really I'm just trying to lobby for fewer organic chemistry questions, since it's my personal opinion that ochem is over-represented in quiz bowl. Then again, maybe I just need to go bone up on my functional groups *grin* Paul Tomlinson
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