On 17-Jun-2005, Peter wrote:

You already provided it yourself. After first making the claim that
there was "no correlation" between LOA and LWL, you later provided data
indicating that the correlation was 0.79 which clearly showed your
initial statement to be false. QED

I've already addressed that - the correlation is not sufficient to
allow for prediction of performance. You are ignoring that _fact_.

As a further indicator of the relevance of LOA as an indicator of
performance, let's look at the correlation between the lengths
and the drag for the kayaks already presented.

Correlation coefficient, LOA vs Drag: -0.35
Correlation coefficient, LWL vs Drag: -0.69

Clearly, an intelligent person would not use LOA as an indicator
of performance. This further shows that the correlation between
LOA and LWL is insufficiently high. It also shows that other
factors beyond just length dictate drag, otherwise the coefficient
for LWL vs drag would be higher.

For cranky ol' rick, I'll get to other factors later.

Mike