Tom's Tech Tip #5-Statistics Without Math
Greetings all.
This is my first post to AO, but I have visited many times. I look forward to talking to you.
I am in a intro to statistics class at DeVry this semester, and I brought Tom's Tech Tip #5 (Statistics without Math) up for discussion on our class message board. I was wondering if someone familiar with the data collection for this study could fill in some details like ...
* type of gun used
* barrel used
* paint used
* temerature on day of testing
* other relevant stuff etc.
As a "couldn't be happier" Minimag owner, I can tell from personal experience that the 'gun shoots perfectly. It is the guy behind it that could always aim with more accuracy.
Thanks for reading this post.
See y'all out on the field.
Re: Tom's Tech Tip #5-Statistics Without Math
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Originally posted by bunderwood
* type of gun used
* barrel used
* paint used
* temerature on day of testing
* other relevant stuff etc.
No gun was actually fired. The groups are all hypothetical representations. This wasn't a comparison between certain brand names, but how a comparison can easily be done by anyone willing to gather a variety of guns and paint brands.
The accuracy tests can be made neutral, by forcing all the tested guns to shoot the same course and direction. Again, easily done.
Make a wood frame with a 10"X20" slot or window, at 5' above the ground. Place this frame 25' in front of your firing bench, with a 24" circle target at 75' downrange.
Shoot over a chrono for every shot, and ONLY COUNT THOSE THAT REACH YOUR SET SPEED (say 280fps). Discard all other shots. Using sandbags or some sort of rest that will hold or prop up each gun the same, shoot through the slot at the target. Only those shots going through the slot will be counted.
Using as many different brands/makes of paint, and as many different brands/makes of barrels possible, interchanged among all the markers as a set ('Mag with .670 JJ barrel and marbs, then Angel with .670 JJ barrel and the SAME box of marbs) to get your comparison results.
Since all guns MUST shoot through the same window, at the same speed, at the same target, in the same environment, with all the same equipment, at the same angle, all the variables will be kept to an absolute minimum, yet equally distributed among all the guns. Count the hits on the target for every new variable that is made (change a barrel, count the new hits. change bag of paint, count hits)
You can't use customized guns, they must be as factory stock as possible to be fair.
This little test will prove that all guns will shoot the same distance, same place, since they all MUST shoot to the same standards.