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Have they posted or sent yet what the Disease Detectives topic areas will be for the National Test? Last year they did tell us two diseases, asthma and Crytosporidia, that would be the diseases on the test.

nmsciencemom wrote:Have they posted or sent yet what the Disease Detectives topic areas will be for the National Test? Last year they did tell us two diseases, asthma and Crytosporidia, that would be the diseases on the test.

They did? I really do not remember that at all... Who is "they"?

They being the National committee. They either sent it out to the coaches as an informative email, or it was posted on the Disease Detective FAQs or clarifications. I know this was the case as our cheat sheet from last year specifically had an expanded section on it. And I remember discussing them.

nmsciencemom wrote:They being the National committee. They either sent it out to the coaches as an informative email, or it was posted on the Disease Detective FAQs or clarifications. I know this was the case as our cheat sheet from last year specifically had an expanded section on it. And I remember discussing them.

I don't remember that at all.

nmsciencemom wrote:They being the National committee. They either sent it out to the coaches as an informative email, or it was posted on the Disease Detective FAQs or clarifications. I know this was the case as our cheat sheet from last year specifically had an expanded section on it. And I remember discussing them.

I also do not have any recollection of such an important clarification. Additionally, that is not posted on the National Tournament website from last year (see http://www.scienceolympiad2014.com/tour ... ationNotes and http://www.scienceolympiad2014.com/virt ... eting.html). For those on the national committee, did I miss something?

I suspect there might have been a specific FAQ asked about those 2 diseases and whether they qualify as possible topics. I haven't heard us ever providing a list of topics outside whats in the rules for ANY event - that's generally not something we do.

Ok, thats what I thought

sciolyboy123 wrote:Ok, thats what I thought

Actually, on soinc.org, it said which two diseases under DD...I participated last year at Nats...So I know.

Is it still there, or is it gone now?

I remember looking at the CDC website sometime in May, and seeing that it specifically said that the competitors(not me ) would be tested on Cryptosporidium and Asthma, and something about there being no statistics questions in B division, although i don't know if that's true or not.