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A Numbers Game: April 2009
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Open source debate statistics. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Using Jon Bruschke's databases on debateresults.com. I have calculated some historical judge side bias. For instance, for the 2006-2007 season (the courts topic), the aff won 50.10% of all ballots. The judges below are those most likely to differ from the general judge population that year:. Joe Koehle, Aff:56, Neg:30. Kirk Evans, Aff:26, Neg:10. Austin Carson, Aff:10, Neg:1. Joe Patrice, Aff:22, Neg:45. Greta Stahl, Aff:26, Neg:50.
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2015 John G Fee Memorial (Berea College) hosted at ForensicsTournament.net
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2015 John G Fee Memorial (Berea College). Tournament Status: Tournament Completed. Welcome to the home page for the 2015 John G Fee Memorial (Berea College) tournament hosted by Berea College (KY) on Oct 16-17, 2015 for College students. Signup for New Account. SoCal-LD - NFA-LD Information. CSS template designed by digitalnature.ro. Validate: XHTML 1.1.
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A Numbers Game: September 2009
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Open source debate statistics. Friday, September 11, 2009. Every summer there is discussion about the side bias of prospective controversy areas and resolutions. Using the data from DebateResults.com. We can see what side bias past resolutions have exhibited. Under the Bradley-Terry model, the energy, China, and security guarantee topics had small, yet highly statistically significant (. Negative bias. The other three topics show no statistically significant bias either way. Links to this post.
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A Numbers Game: The Ross K. Smith scale and standards
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Open source debate statistics. Sunday, October 11, 2009. The Ross K. Smith scale and standards. Click here for more on speaker point scale changes. In a post on edebate. Brian DeLong suggests that tournaments adopting the 100-point (RKS) scale provide an interpretation of the scale to judges to make sure points are allocated fairly. His motivation is based partially on a discrepancy he saw between judges in the Kentucky results from this year. Alex Lamballe gave an average of 90.83 points, but other ...
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A Numbers Game: Changing the speaker point scale
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Open source debate statistics. Thursday, July 23, 2009. Changing the speaker point scale. The Georgia State tournament is moving to a 100-point speaker point scale next year. This will make them the third large [ N.B. Tournament to use a non-standard scale. I have put up some charts of how changing the scale affected point distributions at Wake and USC. Are any other tournament directors planning on switching point scales? If you considered doing so, but decided not to, what stopped you? Looking for rese...
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NCFCA LD: March 2009
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A blog dedicated to LD. Thursday, March 26, 2009. I report with deep regret and a bit of shame, that Nationals will be held at Bob Jones University. For those who may be unaware, why would BJU be a bad idea? Well for a few reasons,. 3 Legalism. A quick read through the bylaws of the college show a legalistic, stern, and shallow interpretation of Christian morality. Why endorse this kind of "morality"? Isn't this the sort of system that Christ condemned? Now you may be thinking,. Sunday, March 15, 2009.
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NCFCA LD: California leave NCFCA, creates Stoa
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A blog dedicated to LD. Saturday, August 29, 2009. California leave NCFCA, creates Stoa. For those of who you are in NCFCA (the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association, the Christian homeschool alternative to the National Forensics League), many of you are aware of the recent developments with the NCFCA and their Region 2 (California). 2 California has probably the highest degree of exposure to college debate (the vast majority of the community colleges competing at Phi Rho Pi College...
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NCFCA LD: September 2009
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A blog dedicated to LD. Tuesday, September 15, 2009. More on Ethnic Conflict. This is an issue that really needs good research. As I said before, race and ethnic issues are not commonly brought about in many NCFCA debates and the NCFCA could profit from good discussions of race in this resolution. Competition Between Ethnic Elites Causes Civil War. Http:/ www.allacademic.com/meta/p mla apa research citation/1/0/0/5/9/p100597 index.html. Competition, Cooperation and Race. An interesting take for this year...
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NCFCA LD: May 2009
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A blog dedicated to LD. Monday, May 11, 2009. NCFCA Response to BJU Protest. As many of you know, several NCFCA affiliates (competitors, alumni, coaches, parents and staff) have been protesting (in writing and by joining a facebook group) the decision by the NCFCA Board to choose Bob Jones University as the location for our 2009 National Championship. If you wish to find the many reasons why BJU is an unacceptable location for our organization, please look to previous posts). Subject: Region 8 Update.
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