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Ophir Lifshitz: rewrite and remove advertising not germane to the general topic of frequency lists

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rewrite and remove advertising not germane to the general topic of frequency lists

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[[NAQT]] publishes '''frequency list'''s for purchase in the categories of [[Literature]], Non-Fiction, [[music]], and [[Fine arts|Art]] (all visual).

These lists also provide an advantage over regular [[list studying]] in that the frequencies give teams a better idea of how important it is to learn each item on the list, and perhaps how [[Important]] the given works are generally.

Disadvantages of frequency lists include:
*the easy potential for the lists to go out of date (NAQT also lets teams purchase updates to the list for a lower price than the initial list)
*the lists may represent recent (and thereby important-to-learn) trends in the [[canon]] as having the same frequency as older works that are rarely asked anymore
*inclusion of seemingly non-academic material, such as children's literature on the literature list

[[Category:Quizbowl improvement methods]]

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-In the context of quiz bowl, a '''frequency list''' is a list which contains the number of times specific topics have appeared in quiz bowl. Some frequency lists contain only the name of topics and their frequency, while others may have additional information on each topic.
+A '''frequency list''' tabulates the number of times that specific topics have appeared in a [[corpus]] of quizbowl questions.
-[[NAQT]] publishes frequency lists for purchase in the categories of [[Literature]], Non-Fiction, [[music]], and [[Fine arts|Art]] (all visual). In 2011, [[HSAPQ]] published a list of over 20000 answer lines from their questions sets that can be seen on [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BAindGz6RPRKb7P4Hw2zDNLSlBHrQMvUwv-uwb8pOFo/pubhtml this public Google spreadsheet] as announced on [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12523 this thread]. Additionally, you can look up "most important (subject matter)" or "100 most famous works of literature" on a search engine to approximate a frequency list.
+Basic frequency lists contain only the name of topics and their frequency. Some frequency lists may have additional information on each topic, such as creators' birth and death dates, country of origin, etc.
-These lists also provide an advantage over regular [[list studying]] in that the frequencies give teams a better idea of how important it is to learn each item on the list, and perhaps how [[important]] the given works are generally.
+==Assessment==
 Disadvantages of frequency lists include:
-*the easy potential for the lists to go out of date (NAQT also lets teams purchase updates to the list for a lower price than the initial list)
+*they may go out of date easily
-*the lists may represent recent (and thereby important-to-learn) trends in the [[canon]] as having the same frequency as older works that are rarely asked anymore
+*they may misrepresent recent (and thereby important-to-learn) [[trend]]s in the [[canon]] as having the same frequency as older works that are rarely asked anymore
-*inclusion of seemingly non-academic material, such as children's literature on the literature list
+*they may include [[non-academic]] material, such as [[children's literature]] in a list of literature
-*non-inclusion of important and frequently-asked about works due to inconsistencies in NAQT's topic tagging system
+*they may omit important and frequently-asked works due to inconsistencies in category or topic tagging systems
-*incentive for binary association learning or otherwise discouraging deeper learning of a topic
+*they may incentivize [[binary association]] learning or otherwise discourage deeper learning of a topic
 [[Category:Quizbowl improvement methods]]

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-[[NAQT]] publishes '''frequency list'''s for purchase in the categories of [[Literature]], Non-Fiction, [[music]], and [[Fine arts|Art]] (all visual). [[HSAPQ]] also published a list of over 20000 answer lines from their questions sets that can be seen on [http://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AitgvOoiHJZodGxRMk1ubkd2aHc0bDZta2xuRHNfZ0E&output=html this public Google spreadsheet] as announced on [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12523 this thread]. Additionally, you can look up "most important (subject matter)" or "100 most famous works of literature" on a search engine to approximate a frequency list.
+In the context of quiz bowl, a '''frequency list''' is a list which contains the number of times specific topics have appeared in quiz bowl. Some frequency lists contain only the name of topics and their frequency, while others may have additional information on each topic.
-These lists also provide an advantage over regular [[list studying]] in that the frequencies give teams a better idea of how important it is to learn each item on the list, and perhaps how [[Important]] the given works are generally.
+[[NAQT]] publishes frequency lists for purchase in the categories of [[Literature]], Non-Fiction, [[music]], and [[Fine arts|Art]] (all visual). In 2011, [[HSAPQ]] published a list of over 20000 answer lines from their questions sets that can be seen on [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BAindGz6RPRKb7P4Hw2zDNLSlBHrQMvUwv-uwb8pOFo/pubhtml this public Google spreadsheet] as announced on [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12523 this thread]. Additionally, you can look up "most important (subject matter)" or "100 most famous works of literature" on a search engine to approximate a frequency list.
 Disadvantages of frequency lists include: