Random aside: By sheer chance (east coast living followed by west coast) I know both Guy and Jerry. You'd get along pretty well if you met, maybe at a tournament, maybe one of those deals where a whole bunch of people got lunch the same place. But that's true of a lot of sets of people on these threads: Just one of the fun things about this game that people take for granted sometimes. Anyway... (Guy complained about art history being held to a different standard than the sciences.) (Jerry rebutted the "ultra-hard science lobby" strawman.) In general I think I agree with Guy, certainly that the subjects should get an analogous treatment (I'm not sure to what extent there's disparity now). I'm not convinced that the humanities have greater answerspace breadth than the sciences. It's certainly true that there's less consensus on the canonical content in any given humanities subject than there would be in, say, the physics class a lot of you took your freshman year. *Maybe* for that reason asking more "advanced" science questions is necessary to avoid people getting bored of the same topics; nonetheless, I think you can write a really good question about some particular artist/work that hasn't come up in quiz bowl much, rather than always asking the same question(s) about the same work(s) where the astute players just remember, "ring in at the part about the dog." ;-) On the flip side I think just because "it was going to be white noise anyway" doesn't quite give carte blanche to ask things that typically come up in med school as opposed to typically coming up in s
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