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by deezee
January 5th, 2013, 11:37 am
Forum: 2013 Study Events
Topic: Disease Detectives B/C
Replies: 153
Views: 57421

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Hello all, My regional tournament is coming up in about a week, yet I am still unsure about one section of the rules. If we look at section "f", subsection four, it says that we should be able to recognize "types of outbreaks and modes of transmission." Can anyone clarify what a...
by deezee
November 29th, 2012, 2:41 pm
Forum: 2013 Study Events
Topic: Disease Detectives B/C
Replies: 153
Views: 57421

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

No. A case study is a study of a single case - i.e., one patient. They are usually only done on extremely interesting or unusual patients, and are only of use in epidemiology in the aggregate and for poorly understood conditions. What did you see on your test? I thought a case study was simply a br...
by deezee
November 15th, 2012, 2:47 pm
Forum: 2013 Lab Events
Topic: Experimental Design B/C
Replies: 152
Views: 47215

Re: Experimental Design B/C

yeah the advice above is great. oftentimes one of the hardest things (for me, personally) was managing time. Generally, allot 5 minutes or so to devise an experiment. THEN start working. This could save a lot of time because you know everything you need to do. Our team personally splits the roles in...
by deezee
November 15th, 2012, 2:41 pm
Forum: 2013 Study Events
Topic: Disease Detectives B/C
Replies: 153
Views: 57421

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

What are the biases and errors that we had to know? Confounding error is the one that I see the most frequently. Other than that, it usually seems to be more along the lines of "identify some potential sources of bias/error in this study" or something along those lines. Even those are ver...
by deezee
November 1st, 2012, 2:31 pm
Forum: 2013 Study Events
Topic: Disease Detectives B/C
Replies: 153
Views: 57421

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

What are the biases and errors that we had to know?
by deezee
November 1st, 2012, 2:10 pm
Forum: 2013 Lab Events
Topic: Experimental Design B/C
Replies: 152
Views: 47215

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Experimental Design(B Division) is one of my "new" events this year, so I was wondering if there are any important things I should know while doing this event. Can someone with a lot of experience with this event give me some tips and specific info about this event that is not generally i...
by deezee
November 1st, 2012, 1:58 pm
Forum: Boomilever B/C
Topic: Ongoing Contest(Scores)
Replies: 366
Views: 76963

Re: Ongoing Contest(Scores)

1. mass: 6.49 g
held: 2 kg :oops:

It would have held a lot more, but i didnt glue the base at an angle to the wood, so when i mounted it the bottom didn't touch the wall and the wood bent until it broke
by deezee
September 26th, 2012, 7:00 pm
Forum: Boomilever B/C
Topic: Boomilever B/C
Replies: 622
Views: 123955

Re: Boomilever B/C

I don't know if anyone else already posted this, but how far from the wall does the boomilever have to be?
by deezee
September 9th, 2012, 2:34 pm
Forum: 2013 Study Events
Topic: Heredity B/Designer Genes C
Replies: 155
Views: 61960

Re: Heredity B/Designer Genes C

Do any of you know any good resources where we can find info on DNA sequencing, protein synthesis, and stuff like that? I'm guessing a lot of the stuff on the tests will include AP bio knowledge (which i haven't even taken yet... =.=)
by deezee
September 9th, 2012, 2:31 pm
Forum: 2013 Lab Events
Topic: Materials Science C
Replies: 68
Views: 44844

Re: Materials Science C

So i guess it's basically applying chem and physics stuff to do certain things... So knowing properties of matter and measuring them would probably be a good thing to study.

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