06-18-2011, 10:28 PM
LR1955 Wrote:Stan: As for a test. It either supports or does not support a hypothesis. And, you must state a significance level before you run your tests or your credibility as a researcher will be absolutely trashed.Gene, that's sheer nonsense. If you have several different brands of factory ammo that you want to chronograph, do you establish signicance levels just to measure and record the velocities? Well, maybe you do
, but everyone else just goes to the range and chrono's the ammo.As far as I'm concerned, you and Joe have been giving me a load of grief for the wrong reason. The two of you seem to be equating research to collect data and writing a requirements document. The latter needs to have significance levels; the former does not.
Well, no matter. I've tried my best to propose objective tests (both here and on 68forums), and give fair and balanced analysis in my magazine articles, but all I get are complaints that I'm unfair and biased...and need to implement significance levels.
I've finally reached the point where I'm tired of it and just don't care anymore. Do the proposed tests, or don't do them, as you wish.Stan