Originally Posted by
Dfrost
BQ’s second rider, Mark Vande Kamp, often seen in side-by-side photos with JH, is a professional statistician in his “day job”. I don’t drink all the BQ Kool-Aid, but do feel that their testing is done with transparency, honesty, and statistical accuracy.
With a sample size of 1, how can statistical accuracy be relevant, at least for bike tests? They do not buy multiple examples of $3k to $13k bikes to do a bike test. They do form generalizations about design features, such as trail, fork offset, frame angles, and performance characteristics such as planing. They publish a lot about tested tire performance and generator lighting systems. Stats knowledge is apparent in those, but some of the non-bike tests are re-used from EU publications, aren’t they?