How happy I am to be allowed to play with the boys with the big brains. Hubert, often the simplest ideas are the best
Morphy, thanks for the link, an eye opener and I note in it another reference to slinging as an olympic sport !!
NooC, taking the message out of big reports is what I was born for ... bring it on
I was taught; the essence of the scientific method is replicability.
Would it therefore follow that giving 100 slingers 10 standardised slings (in different types and lengths) with standardised ammo (brick glandes, or otherwise) and asking them to sling at targets (balearic or otherwise) at set distances and recording the results (painstakingly) would produce a huge amount of useful data which could produce unexpected results, an evidence base for the olympic bid
and anomalies which could be relevant to producing working hypotheses ?