John, Good for you! I was thinking along the same lines. I had an advisor in college that pushed me into taking 5 stats classes. 5! Doing so makes me look at all claims with a suspicious eye. A writer's opinion is just that - his or her opinion. And you know what they say about opinions. ;-)
I would like to see what a valid statistical analysis would really show. I also was thinking of pulling the data from the NTSB database. Unfortunately I just don't have the time at present. It would be great if you could do this, but I have no idea if you have the time either. Spook --- On Thu, 5/7/09, John Craparo <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Craparo <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ercoupe-flyin] Coupe bashing. To: Cc: [email protected] Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 5:27 PM My theory is pretty straight forward. Read anything that Richard Collins wrote about the Ercoupe and it was always negative. He does not like the airplane. I do not know what his father said about it, but I believe Richard's comments are a big part of what sticks in the heads of the editors at Flying... It would be good to do a Chi Square Analysis or some other powerful statistical test for significance to see how the Cessna 150, Luiscombe 8A, Cirrus and others stack uo in comparison to one another... If I have some time, I will work on pulling the data from NTSB database and data on registrations over some period of time. A scientific answer would be better than what one person has to say on the subject. John
