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It saves time to pursue recorded information found in flight test data.

True

But that is not the reason it is better than combat reports

Test data is collected under controlled conditions

Combat reports are not

That's the easy part and if it were that open and shut we'd all be in agreeance.

Well it is not that easy

And if you think their is a lot of disagreement now

Wait until you present you 'conclusion' you drew from your statistical analysis of those combat reports

I also see a bit of mistrust that i don't care to get in the middle of but i think it waste more time trying to substantiate or discredit a source than just looking at the additional documentation provided and reading what its actually portraying and then quietly drawing my own conclusions.

Not sure what your referring to there

Knocking people down or the information they provide is not conducive to building, its actually more destructive than anything, and has a way of alienating people. I'm not singling anyone out, i just think sometimes i see threads that carry on for pages about the legitimacy of an opinion, when the actual source (i.e. the facts) itself still has value especially if the current information is limited and leads to oversimplified results.

Not sure what your referring to there either

Simplicity does not constitute completeness, although that does contradict the idea that the most simple explanation is usually the correct one.

Ok make that three for three

In that I am not sure what your referring to there either

Stop beating around the bush and just say it