It is self evident that W. Wright said the wind tunnel tests had generated numerical data that had been used after that for calculating and designing large wings while the tests done by Michael Gary Dodson show the predictions for drag would have been 300% too high had the two brothers tried to scale up their data, obtained using their wind tunnel.
To be more clear if, as an example, one has a small wing and measures its drag coefficient, with the help of a small wind tunnel, this coefficient is simply useless for a wing of the same shape but with a surface: 25, 50, 100 times larger.
But the Wrights did not come to that conclusion did they !
They calculated that they could fly with an 8hp engine and they did not try to build a 'cathedral' like some other pioneers...as I said in my previous post - one has to look at the whole article and not 'Cherry Pick' the bit that seems to support your obsession !