Steve
Mostly Harmless
training methods do matter. Just to be more specific, if you took 100 WC or Ninjutsu guys, 100 MMA guys and 100 untrained guys (all guys in a generic, random sense), the MMA guys would undoubtedly perform better. The only question in my mind is whether there would be any appreciable difference in fighting skill between the ninjas and the control group. Hard to say.Both of those are possible. Unlikely, in my estimation, but possible.
The former would defy the experience of a lot of people, that training methods matter.
could easily work, but you're right that it would need to be better defined. The real challenge is in collecting the data.The latter is too undefined to work for statistics in any case. Some types of attack are less likely to become more survivable by fighting skills. Some others likely do change. There’s really too broad a spectrum to treat them all as one. It’s kind of like talking about illness.