----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Cheshire Fire check offer
> > The only real way to measure impact would be to compare two large > groups of otherwise identical boats, one subject to a BSS regime and > one that wasn't, and compare accident stats over time. That's easy then, they have the stats from before it was introduced, (they did have some concrete basis for introducing it, surely) for a very large group of boats, all of them in fact, and presumably have the stats for "after" for the very same boats as well. > > I have not always agreed with every last bit of the BSS regs, but do > not object to having to have boats checked every so often. > Wouldn't you like to be sure it wasn't all a waste of time, though? -- Niall
