Originally posted by
Sunset
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Seems to me that the Winni.com poll was thoroughly and credibly discredited a couple of weeks ago on this forum...
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The poll is of members of this forum who are boaters on Lake Winnipesaukee. Limited in scope to only those that are impacted by the law? Yes. Discredited? Certainly not.
Originally posted by
Sunset
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In any case, I'll put my trust in the ARG poll which seemed to be taken using valid and accepted statistical methodology
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If I recall correctly ARG has been discredited by professionals.
The actual poll that is telling is the one by the USCG that was linked to by Ryan showing only 4 percent of 2008 accidents in the entire country involve boats traveling at greater than 40 miles an hour. That means 96% of the accidents in the US involved boats traveling within the NH speed limits! Kind of falls into line with the NHMP snapshot of the lake when they found fewer than 1% of boats measured were exceeding the then proposed limits.
And just think, no one on our side had to search internationally to show that!