"QB is obviously supposed to reward some slightly different set of knowledge," Hey, history of science doesn't come up in science classes and is a different set of knowledge than what they teach in school. Some people like it and want to be exposed to it. It works both ways. The distributions we use are entirely arbitrary, and based on a consensus which is not unanimous. Now, I do think that ought to be some differences between which distributions you use for high school and college. One of my beliefs in this realm is that history and literature ought to be more tilted towards Americana in a high school tournament (assuming it is held in the U.S.) than in a college tournament. There is a necessary bias towards the US in high school classes...necessary since, to understand other parts of the world, it helps to have understanding of your own culture as a point of reference. Social science questions are probably going to be more econ, psychology, and American government, since those are more likely to be actual social science classes offered in a high school. Moving on to college, the percentage of the social science distribution accounted for by those three will shrink, with the slack taken up by anthropology, sociology, and the like. Although we want people to move up from high school to college quizbowl, the high school game should be something which high school players can enjoy in and of itself. It's not a version of the college game which is just on a smaller scale. The reason that people self-select to be quizbowlers in high school and college can be different, and I'm not going to go to the Church of the One True Quizbowl and try to force people into my view of the game by whatever means.
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