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Old 01-07-2010, 11:50 AM   #425 (permalink)
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Christ: thanks for pointing that out.

Nerys: that's the problem trying to compare controlled-as-possible (test) & uncontrolled (commute) data. Apples and oranges.

If you want to do a meaningful comparison of only your commute results, you have to log a very high number of data points, like palemelanesian has done.

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Not to belabor the point, but Metro would certainly want to do his mileage test on an almost calm day to make deciphering the data easier.
Yes. That's always a goal.

In the ~2 hours it took to do the A-B-A boat tail test, the wind speed varied between calm and 2 km/h according to an online federal weather station a couple of km away.
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