Talk:Morale/Fatigue/@comment-24269960-20140503071717/@comment-861160-20140509071525

Thank you, I see where I made the initial mistake in my evaluation of the problem. If you take into consideration the additional data in this post ( http://blog.gamelogbook.com/2014/04/jinkei-kaihi.html ) it seems fairly conclusive to say there is a difference between formations. Also, I looked up how to do a two-sample test (I'd forgotten about its existence since I last had to do serious statistics), and indeed it does seem like there's a difference between line ahead and line abreast.

Given the apparent evasion rates from this experiment it seems that line abreast is not much better (if at all) compared to double line in terms of evasion, though, which would make double line the favored formation for evasion since it sacrifices much less damage than line abreast.

However, one thing to note is these tests were all done using torpedo evasion. It's difficult to say whether the results will apply to shelling evasion or not.

Anyways, I think we've gone sufficiently off on a tangent here in the morale comments. If anyone would like to discuss this topic further I think we should start a new thread in the combat page.