Re: State of the Game Panel?

• From: allythin <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:21:56 -0000
• Message-ID: <c0hjd4+pis7_at_...>

> At the very least, I and other members of NAQT would be happy to 
> publicly answer questions that are posted in this forum or to 
> privately answer those that are e-mailed to us.  If somebody wants 
to 
> go to the trouble of collecting and posting anonymized questions, 
> that would be fine as well.
> 
> Please note that we cannot promise to answer *every* possible 
> question that might be asked; things concerning our internal 
> finances, our business plans in competitive markets, and so forth 
> would clearly be off-limits.  In general, though, we are happy to 
> discuss our policies and ideals and the reasons behind them.  It 
is 
> also unlikely that we would choose to reveal the formula for the S-
> values, though specific questions about how it worked might be 
fair 
> game.

OK in the interest of forthrightness,

1) The one thing I've never understood is why the S value formula 
MUST be kept secret.  What does NAQT lose by declining to answer 
that question?  It seems that an organization like this would want 
things to be as transparent as possible, or at the very least, a 
clearly articulated, valid reason for a lack of transparency.  On 
that theme...

2) Why did NAQT remove the question writer's numbers from some 
Invitational Series sets and the SCT set?

3) What's your distribution?  I've never seen this placed online 
anywhere.  I've been told (not by NAQT folk) that if you look 
closely enough at the sets you can divine it but it shouldn't be 
that hard.  

Answers to these would be very interesting.

Sean Phillips