Experimental Design B/C

[MissAmargasaurus]

Hey guys!

I was wondering, what kind of strategies do those of you use once you're at a point of consistently doing well in your section, but still want to improve? I do part A (hypothesis, statement of problem, conclusion, etc.) Are there any certain things I should start to include to make it all look nicer, and help in the case of a tie breaker? Me and my E.D partners got 12th in Nationals last year, and this year we're hoping to get even closer!

[L84school]

Does anybody know if you actually have to include median and mode in Statistics?

[WhatScience?]

Does anybody know if you actually have to include median and mode in Statistics?

It is always helpful to include more.

[dxu46]

Does anybody know if you actually have to include median and mode in Statistics?

Well, don't you need a measure of central tendency among other things? Median would work there.

[OrigamiPlanet]

Does anybody know if you actually have to include median and mode in Statistics?

I think the most optimum way to get the most points in statistics is to include as many forms of statistics as possible. Things like range, mean, median, mode, standard deviation, etc. Since it is six points, I would want to keep it simple and put maybe 5 or 6 types of statistics, one point for each. You shouldn't need any more from there on.

[Snarknado]

I'm curious, how does this event work out at nationals?

My experience has been that success in this event is largely memorization of the scoring rubric and effective team coordination, and it seems like at the national level you'd have a good number of teams with potentially perfect scores.

Do they just dial up the difficulty on the topics to kick people's scores back down into a more differential range?

[Unome]

I'm curious, how does this event work out at nationals?

My experience has been that success in this event is largely memorization of the scoring rubric and effective team coordination, and it seems like at the national level you'd have a good number of teams with potentially perfect scores.

Do they just dial up the difficulty on the topics to kick people's scores back down into a more differential range?

With sufficiently harsh grading and an unusual enough topic, I'd imagine scores could go down at higher levels. I recall at MIT last year, the top score was around 100 points.

[Justin72835]

With sufficiently harsh grading and an unusual enough topic, I'd imagine scores could go down at higher levels. I recall at MIT last year, the top score was around 100 points.

I second this statement. At MIT last year, the materials they gave were a laser, paper, water, foil, salt, and a pencil and we were supposed to create an experiment about optics. It was exceedingly difficult to come up with a valid experiment, which in part was why so many teams had a tough time with it.

[lilyfox]

Does anyone know a way to find examples of write ups that people have done? Are they on the wiki?

[dxu46]

Does anyone know a way to find examples of write ups that people have done? Are they on the wiki?

The wiki page contains a sample experiment broken up in all of the sections.