@Ryan Avery @Formidilosus in every discussion about drop testing I get the same 2 detractors which I think represent the 2 common knee jerk reactions - 1) “my scopes all work” “PRS champs use this scope” or they are industry shills for scope companies and don’t want to call attention to these failures. 2) stat weenies - “this is not a controlled test” “not large enough samples to be statistically viable” blah blah blah
As an aside: stats nerds are obsessed with sample size. For some reason they can’t factor in the purpose or importance of the object being tested. For example, if I designed a pacemaker and the first prototype failed in initial testing, we wouldn’t say, let’s build and test 30 more prototypes. A single failure of any type is not acceptable. Test over. Back to the drawing board. I believe this applies to how many scopes are used whether in self defense, law enforcement, back country hunts or competition.
Have you ever considered doing a podcast or video with another industry optics personality? Someone not tied to any optics companies. Like C_Does, Ilya Koshkin (DLO) or someone similar. The idea would be to take a bunch of popular scopes, explain your test, conduct tests, show the results and allow for some cross examination by an outside party. It might shed some light on the validity of all the good work you’ve done. Could coincide with the S2H scope release as well.