Qantas is going to be waiting a long tine before a serious scientist, with a PHD behind their name signs ‘the study’. After all, their reputations would hang upon it. Unlike Qantas management.
The reality of the marketing (which to be fair they do well) "project" is not to ever see the light of day.
Qantas paid for it, so it is tightly controlled.
To be considered as fit for publication a study needs to be peer reviewed as T-Vasis referred to previously.
To be peer reviewed it must meet threshold benchmarks.
For a scientific study it requires a large sample, repeat observations and also must be of sufficient duration to be able to draw anything meaningful from "conclusions"
This would not get even close.
- Three flights
- 40 Passengers (all handpicked of course-Like Stream Lead former AIPA President and hack journalists)
- Hand picked "management approved" pilots
- On an aircraft that actually isn't doing the day to day operation.
None of it is even close to replicating the real life observed practice.
Just a paid consulting project for compromised academics providing another junket for selected AstroTurfers...